Primary endovascular therapy with clot retrieval and balloon angioplasty for acute basilar artery occlusion

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 323-327

  Zaidat, Osama O ^a   Tolbert, Marshall ^a   Smith, Tony P ^a   Alexander, Michael J ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Basilar artery; Clot retrieval; Stroke; Thrombolysis; Thrombus removal

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEVICE; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BASILAR ARTERY; HUMANS; MALE; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 27744559399     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000088735     Document Type: Article

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