Does the Merci Retriever work? Against

Stroke

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1341-1342

  Wechsler, Lawrence R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute stroke

Indexed keywords

PROUROKINASE;

BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; DEVICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; SHORT SURVEY; STROKE; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CATHETERIZATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIALS; DEVICE APPROVAL; EMBOLECTOMY; HUMANS;

EID: 33646694992     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000217361.50952.5c     Document Type: Short Survey

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