Treatment options in vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia - Case report and review of the literature

European Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 245-247

  Dziewas, Rainer ^a   Freund, Michael ^a   Lüdemann, Peter ^a   Müller, Markus ^a   Ritter, Martin ^a   Droste, Dirk W ^a   Stögbauer, Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; HEPARIN;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; LOCKED IN SYNDROME; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASE; VERTEBROBASILAR DOLICHOECTASIA;

AGED; BASILAR ARTERY; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; RECURRENCE; SUBCLAVIAN STEAL SYNDROME; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037624751     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070196     Document Type: Article

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