Combined Stent Placement and Thrombolysis in Acute Vertebrobasilar Ischemic Stroke

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1827-1833

  Lin, Doris D M ^a   Gailloud, Philippe ^a   Beauchamp, Norman J ^a   Aldrich, Eric M ^a   Wityk, Robert J ^a   Murphy, Kieran J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADULT; AGED; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; CAROTID ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; COMA; CORONARY STENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECANALIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0142135919     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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