Autopsy findings after intracranial thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke: A clinicopathologic study of 5 patients

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 938-947

  Yin, Nicole S ^a   Benavides, Sebastian ^a   Starkman, Sidney ^b   Liebeskind, David S ^b   Saver, Jeffrey A ^b   Salamon, Noriko ^b   Jahan, Reza ^b   Duckwiler, Gary R ^b   Tateshima, Satoshi ^b   Vinuela, Fernando ^b   Vespa, Paul M ^b   Chute, Dennis J ^a   Vinters, Harry V ^a,b  

^a Laboratory Medicine Neuropathology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarct; Intracerebral hemorrhage; MERCI device; Stroke recovery; Thrombectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PARENCHYMA; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; STENOSIS; THROMBECTOMY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THROMBECTOMY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 77951766328     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.576793     Document Type: Article

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