Partial recanalization of concomitant internal carotid-middle cerebral arterial occlusions promotes distal recanalization of residual thrombus within 24 h

Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 38-42

  Loh, Y ^a,b   Liebeskind, D S ^a   Shi, Z S ^a   Jahan, R ^a   Gonzalez, N R ^a   Tateshima, S ^a   Vespa, P M ^a   Starkman, S ^a   Saver, J L ^a   Vinuela F ^a   Duckwiler, G R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ANGIOPLASTY; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; INTRACRANIAL ANGIOPLASTY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; RESIDUAL THROMBUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY THROMBOSIS; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBECTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 79954546133     PISSN: 17598478     EISSN: 17598486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnis.2009.002097     Document Type: Article

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