Ultrasound identification and lysis of clots

Stroke

Volumn 35, Issue 11 SUPPL. 1, 2004, Pages 2722-2725

  Alexandrov, Andrei V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Outcomes; Stroke; Thrombolysis; Tissue plasminogen activator; Ultrasonography, Doppler, transcranial

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ARTERY OCCLUSION; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG TRANSPORT; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; STROKE; THROMBUS;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 7644242450     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000143321.37482.b3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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