MRI-based score for acute basilar artery thrombosis

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 511-516

  Renard, D ^a   Landragin, N ^a   Robinson, A ^b   Brunel, H ^a   Bonafe, A ^a   Heroum, C ^a   Milhaud, C ^a  

^a GUI DE CHAULIAC HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Centre Hospitalier Antoine Gayraud   (France)

Author keywords

Basilar artery occlusion; DWI; Intra arterial thrombolysis; MRI; Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY THROMBOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; MALE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANKIN SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN STEM INFARCTIONS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; THROMBOSIS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 45549105640     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000131668     Document Type: Article

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