Collateral damage in acute stroke treatment: A new role for an old concept?

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 615-616

  Warburton, Liz ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONVALESCENCE; EDITORIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; VASCULARIZATION;

CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PROGNOSIS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY;

EID: 44449157223     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2007.140525     Document Type: Editorial

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