Characteristics and the fate of intraluminal thrombus of the intracranial and extracranial cerebral arteries in acute ischemic stroke patients

European Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 72-78

  Choi, Hye Yeon ^a   Ye, Byoung Suk ^a   Ahn, Seong Hwan ^a,b   Cho, Hyun Ji ^a   Kim, Dong Joon ^a   Kim, Seung Min ^a   Heo, Ji Hoe ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Chosun University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Angiography; Carotid duplex; Intraluminal thrombus; Prognosis; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRALUMINAL THROMBUS; MALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; THROMBUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 66749123549     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000222776     Document Type: Article

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