Cervical Arterial Dissection: Time for a Therapeutic Trial?

Stroke

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2856-2860

  Beletsky, Vadim ^a,f   Nadareishvili, Zurab ^b   Lynch, John ^c   Shuaib, Ashfaq ^d   Woolfenden, Andrew ^e   Norris, John W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Issection; Randomized controlled trials; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CERVICAL ARTERIAL DISSECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CANADA; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL, DISSECTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK INJURIES; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION;

EID: 0345599243     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000098649.39767.BC     Document Type: Article

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