Early recanalization rates and clinical outcomes in patients with tandem internal carotid artery/middle cerebral artery occlusion and isolated middle cerebral artery occlusion

Stroke

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 869-871

  Kim, Yo Sik ^a   Garami, Zsolt ^b   Mikulik, Robert ^b   Molina, Carlos A ^c   Alexandrov, Andrei V ^b  

^a Wonkwang University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

Middle cerebral artery occlusion; Outcome; Stroke, acute; Thrombolysis; Ultrasonography, Doppler, trnscranial

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; RECANALIZATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CAROTID ARTERY THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 16844375839     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000160007.57787.4c     Document Type: Article

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