Mechanical extraction of a basilar-artery embolus with the use of flow reversal and a microbasket [6]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 347, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 769-770

  Mayer, Thomas E ^a   Hamann, Gerhard F ^a   Brueckmann, Hartmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; BALLOON CATHETER; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LETTER; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE;

ADOLESCENT; BALLOON DILATATION; BASILAR ARTERY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0037026692     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200209053471019     Document Type: Letter

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