Stent-assisted angioplasty of intracranial vertebrobasilar atherosclerosis: Midterm analysis of clinical and radiologic predictors of neurological morbidity and mortality

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 869-874

  Chow, Michael M ^a   Masaryk, Thomas J ^a   Woo, Henry H ^a   Mayberg, Marc R ^a   Rasmussen, Peter A ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPLASTY; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; REVIEW; STENOSIS; STENT; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ANGIOPLASTY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN INFARCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 30544434034     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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