Significance of large vessel intracranial occlusion causing acute ischemic stroke and tia

Stroke

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3834-3840

  Smith, Wade S ^a   Lev, Michael H ^c   English, Joey D ^a   Camargo, Erica C ^d   Chou, Maggie ^e   Johnston, S Claiborne ^a   Gonzalez, Gilberto ^c   Schaefer, Pamela W ^c   Dillon, William P ^b   Koroshetz, Walter J ^f   Furie, Karen L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Departments of Radiology

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

CT angiography; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANKIN SCALE; SCREENING; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 73449147970     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.561787     Document Type: Article

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