Clinically successful late recanalization of basilar artery occlusion in childhood: What are the odds?. Case report and review of the literature

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 260, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 256-260

  Grigoriadis, Savvas ^a   Gomori, John Mose ^a   Grigoriadis, Nikolaos ^b   Cohen, José E ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Basilar artery; Locked in syndrome; Pediatric stroke; Recanalization; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN;

ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEMIPARESIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOCKED IN SYNDROME; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MUSCLE SPASM; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; STROKE; SYMPTOM; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VASCULAR PATENCY; WAKEFULNESS;

AGE FACTORS; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ANTICOAGULANTS; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN STEM INFARCTIONS; CHILD; HEPARIN; HUMANS; MALE; PONS; QUADRIPLEGIA; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 34547657330     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2007.03.028     Document Type: Article

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