Advantages of a combined approach to recanalization therapy

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Nichols, Christopher ^a   Khatri, Pooja ^a   Tomsick, Thomas ^a   Broderick, Joseph ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; PLACEBO;

BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DEVICE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; LETTER; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MONOTHERAPY; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANKIN SCALE; RATING SCALE; RECANALIZATION; STROKE;

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 41149162785     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.500405     Document Type: Letter

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