Assessment of thrombus in acute middle cerebral artery occlusion using thin-slice nonenhanced computed tomography reconstructions

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1659-1664

  Riedel, Christian H ^a   Jensen, Ulf ^a   Rohr, Axel ^a   Tietke, Marc ^a   Alfke, Karsten ^a   Ulmer, Stephan ^a   Jansen, Olav ^a  

^a UKS H   (Germany)

Author keywords

acute care; acute stroke; CT; embolic stroke; embolism; imaging; neuroradiology; stroke care; stroke management; thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEURORADIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77955175457     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.580662     Document Type: Article

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