Endovascular recanalization of acute intracranial vertebrobasilar artery occlusion using local fibrinolysis and additional balloon angioplasty

Neuroradiology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 361-370

  Kashiwagi, Junji ^a   Kiyosue, Hiro ^b   Hori, Yuzo ^b   Okahara, Mika ^a   Tanoue, Shuichi ^b   Sagara, Yoshiko ^b   Abe, Toshi ^d   Mori, Hiromu ^c  

^a Shinbeppu Hospital   (Japan)

^b OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Nagatomi Neurosurgical Hospital   (Japan)

^d KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basilar artery occlusion; Interventional radiology; Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; UROKINASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; RECANALIZATION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 77953540437     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-010-0658-9     Document Type: Article

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