Brain attack: Emergency treatment of ischemic stroke

American Family Physician

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 2655-2662

  Selman, Warren R ^a   Tarr, Robert ^a   Landis, Dennis M D ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; ANISTREPLASE; STREPTOKINASE; UROKINASE;

ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMBOLISM; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CLINICAL TRIALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY;

EID: 0030979765     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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