Mobile Thrombus from a Ruptured Plaque in the Brachiocephalic Artery

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 423-425

  Nakajima, Makoto ^a   Yasaka, Masahiro ^a   Minematsu, Kazuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

autopsy; brachioccphalic artery; brain infarction; Mobile thrombus; plaque rupture; stroke

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; D DIMER; FIBRIN; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

AGED; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; DERMATITIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEMIPARESIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LEG; LIMB WEAKNESS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPEECH DISORDER; STROKE; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; THROMBOGENESIS; THROMBUS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID STENOSIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HEPARIN; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; STROKE; THROMBOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 54849420059     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2008.04.010     Document Type: Article

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