Clinical and radiological courses do not differ between fluid-attenuated inversion recovery-positive and negative patients with stroke after thrombolysis

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1823-1825

  Ebinger, Martin ^a   Ostwaldt, Ann Christin ^a   Galinovic, Ivana ^a   Rozanski, Michal ^a   Brunecker, Peter ^a   Nolte, Christian H ^a   Endres, Matthias ^a   Fiebach, Jochen B ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

acute stroke; MRI; thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY;

AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955171487     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.583971     Document Type: Article

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