Local intra-arterial thrombolysis in a 4-year-old male with vertebrobasilar artery thrombosis

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 155-158

  Janmaat, Mirjam ^a   Gravendeel, Joost P ^a   Uyttenboogaart, Maarten ^a   Vroomen, Patrick C ^a   Brouwer, Oebele F ^a   Luijckx, Gert Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CEPHALOSPORIN; HEPARIN; UROKINASE;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BASILAR ARTERY; BASILAR ARTERY THROMBOSIS; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; DETERIORATION; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; HUMAN; LEG MOVEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MESENCEPHALON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PONS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VASCULITIS;

BASILAR ARTERY; CEREBRAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MALE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; UROKINASE-TYPE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 58849151822     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2008.03232.x     Document Type: Article

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