Concurrent comparison of outcomes of primary angioplasty and of stent placement in high-risk patients with symptomatic intracranial stenosis

Neurosurgery

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1053-1060

  Qureshi, Adnan I ^a   Hussein, Haitham M ^a   El Gengaihy, Ahmed ^b   Abdelmoula, Mohamed ^b   K Suri, M Fareed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Intracranial atherosclerosis; Ischemic stroke; Outcome; Stent; Transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STENOSIS; STENT; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ANGIOPLASTY; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 49049110783     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000325867.06764.3a     Document Type: Article

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