Basilar artery stent angioplasty for symptomatic intracranial athero-occlusive disease: Complications and late midterm clinical outcomes

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 808-815

  Abruzzo, Todd A ^a   Tong, F C ^b   Waldrop, A S M ^b   Workman, M J ^b   Cloft, H J ^c   Dion, J E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ATELECTASIS; BASILAR ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; STENT; STROKE; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; ANGIOPLASTY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 34248671131     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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