Spontaneous Early Recanalization of an Acute Symptomatic Critical Stenosis of the Extracranial Internal Carotid Artery: A Case Report

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 469-472

  Yang, Fu Chi ^a   Lin, Jiann Chyun ^a   Chen, Cheng Yu ^a   Peng, Giia Sheun ^a  

^a TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; NADROPARIN;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DYSARTHRIA; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECANALIZATION; SECONDARY PREVENTION; THROMBOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 43049106068     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2007.12.009     Document Type: Article

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