Multimodal reperfusion therapy in patients with acute basilar artery occlusion

Neurosurgery

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 548-552

  Raphaeli, Guy ^a   Eichel, Roni ^a   Ben Hur, Tamir ^a   Leker, Ronen R ^a   Cohen, Jose E ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Basilar; Endovascular; Multimodal; Reperfusion; Stroke

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; UROKINASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MORTALITY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUADRIPLEGIA; RANKIN SCALE; RECANALIZATION; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BASILAR ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; REPERFUSION; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69549113551     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000350862.35963.49     Document Type: Article

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