Clinical and radiological predictors of recanalisation and outcome of 40 patients with acute basilar artery occlusion treated with intra-arterial thrombolysis

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 857-862

  Arnold, M ^a   Nedeltchev, K ^a   Schroth, G ^a   Baumgartner, R W ^b   Remonda, L ^a   Loher, T J ^a   Stepper, F ^a   Sturzenegger, M ^a   Schuknecht, B ^b   Mattle, H P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MODEL; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; RECANALIZATION; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ASPIRIN; BASILAR ARTERY; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 2442654129     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.020479     Document Type: Article

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