The MERCI retrieval system for the management of acute ischaemic stroke - The NNI Singapore experience

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 749-755

  Lee, Wickly ^a   Sitoh, Yih Yian ^a   Lim, C C Tchoyoson ^a   Lim, Winston E H ^b   Hui, Francis K H ^a  

^a NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Acute ischaemic stroke; Mechanical revascularisation; The Merci Retrieval System; Thrombectomy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECANALIZATION; SINGAPORE; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBUS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 70349662042     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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