Treatment of basilar artery occlusion: a prospective randomised therapeutic study is needed

The Lancet Neurology

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1084-1085

  Schulte Altedorneburg, Gernot ^a   Liebig, Thomas ^b   Brückmann, Hartmut ^c   Jansen, Olav ^d  

^a Munich Municipal Hospital   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY OCCLUSION; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; LETTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECANALIZATION; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 71849084818     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(09)70310-2     Document Type: Letter

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