Some recent and personal ideas about stroke treatment and prophylaxis: Editorial review

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-37

  Zeumer, Hermann ^a   Weiller, Cornelius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; EDITORIAL; EMBOLISM; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; STENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 13944260453     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019052-200502000-00008     Document Type: Editorial

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