Options for recanalization therapy in basilar artery occlusion

Stroke

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 203-204

  Lindsberg, Perttu J ^a,b,c   Soinne, Lauri ^a   Roine, Risto O ^a   Tatlisumak, Turgut ^a,b  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b Neuroscience Program   (Finland)

^c Biomedicum Helsinki   (Finland)

Author keywords

Advances in Stroke; Basilar artery; Outcome; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; HEPARIN;

BASILAR ARTERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BASILAR ARTERY; COHORT STUDIES; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; RISK; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 12844268059     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000153796.49137.e8     Document Type: Review

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