Mechanical endovascular acute stroke treatment: Here to stay

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 273-274

  Lutsep, Helmi L ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MERCI RETRIEVER; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PARECHYMAL HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RATING SCALE; RECANALIZATION; SAFETY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BLOOD VESSEL; EMBOLECTOMY; EQUIPMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; PATHOLOGY; STROKE;

BLOOD VESSELS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EMBOLECTOMY; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HUMANS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 48649087806     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17434440.5.3.273     Document Type: Editorial

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