Thrombolysis of basilar artery occlusion-intra-arterial or intravenous: Is there really no difference? [1]

Stroke

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 9-

  Schulte Altedorneburg, Gernot ^a,b   Reith, Wolfgang ^a   Brückmann, Hartmut ^b   Dichgans, Martin ^b   Mayer, Thomas E ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

BASILAR ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPY EFFECT; THROMBOGENESIS; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

BASILAR ARTERY; CLINICAL TRIALS; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 33845926995     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000251686.28701.17     Document Type: Letter

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