Outcome after local intra-arterial fibrinolysis compared with the natural course of patients with a dense middle cerebral artery on early CT

Neuroradiology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 54-58

  Bendszus, M ^a   Urbach, H ^a   Ries, F ^b   Solymosi, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral; Fibrinolysis; Intra arterial; Thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; FIBRINOLYSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADULT; AGED; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031786437     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002340050540     Document Type: Article

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