Frequency and clinical course of stroke and transient ischemic attack patients with intracranial nonocclusive thrombus on computed tomographic angiography

Stroke

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 193-199

  Demchuk, Andrew M ^a,b,c   Puetz, Volker ^a,b   Dzialowski, Imanuel ^a   Coutts, Shelagh B ^a   Hill, Michael D ^a   Krol, Andrea ^a   O'Reilly, Christine ^a   Goyal, Mayank ^b  

^a Department of Clinical Neurosciences ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute; Computed tomography angiography; Stroke; Thrombus; Transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL NONOCCLUSIVE THROMBUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANKIN SCALE; THROMBUS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; STATISTICS; STROKE;

AGED; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; COMORBIDITY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 60549118163     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.108.526277     Document Type: Article

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