Isolated deep cerebral venous thrombosis treated by direct endovascular thrombolysis

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 261-266

  Gerszten, Peter C ^a   Welch, William C ^a,b   Spearman, Michael P ^a   Jungreis, Charles A ^a   Redner, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antithrombin III deficiency; Dural sinus thrombosis; Fibrinolysis; Urokinase

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; UROKINASE;

ADULT; ANTITHROMBIN III DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; BRAIN VEIN; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DURA MATER; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; VEIN CATHETERIZATION;

ADULT; ANTITHROMBIN III DEFICIENCY; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; CEREBRAL VEINS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; SINUS THROMBOSIS, INTRACRANIAL; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 0030987466     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(96)00554-X     Document Type: Article

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