Mechanical thrombectomy for acute stroke with the alligator retrieval device

Stroke

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3784-3788

  Hussain, Muhammad S ^a   Kelly, Michael E ^b   Moskowitz, Shaye I ^a   Furlan, Anthony J ^c   Turner, Raymond D ^a   Gonugunta, Vivek ^a   Rasmussen, Peter A ^a   Masaryk, Thomas J ^a   Fiorella, David ^d  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^d BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Mechanical thrombectomy; Retrieval

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALLIGATOR RETRIEVAL DEVICE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BASILAR ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; MALE; MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; STROKE; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STROKE; THROMBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73449112257     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.108.525618     Document Type: Article

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