Continuous thrombolysis and repeated thrombectomy with the penumbra system™ in a child with hemorrhagic sinus thrombosis: Technical note

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 152, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 911-916

  Kulcsár, Zsolt ^a   Marosfoi, Miklós ^a   Berentei, Zsolt ^a   Szikora, István ^a  

^a National Institute of Neuroscience   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Sinus thrombosis; Thrombectomy; Thromboaspiration; Thrombolysis; Urokinase

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN; UROKINASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOW DRUG DOSE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; REPEAT PROCEDURE; REPERFUSION; THROMBUS ASPIRATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTICOAGULANTS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CRANIAL SINUSES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHLEBOGRAPHY; SINUS THROMBOSIS, INTRACRANIAL; THROMBECTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROKINASE-TYPE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 77953082423     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-009-0570-4     Document Type: Article

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