'Where are we now with intravenous thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke'?

International Journal of Stroke

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 381-382

  Sandercock, Peter ^a   Wardlaw, Joanna ^a   Lindley, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG APPROVAL; EARLY INTERVENTION; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; OFF LABEL DRUG USE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 77956258035     PISSN: 17474930     EISSN: 17474949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-4949.2010.00465.x     Document Type: Article

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