Endovascular treatment of tandem extracranial/intracranial anterior circulation occlusions: Preliminary single-center experience

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1653-1657

  Malik, Amer M ^a,b   Vora, Nirav A ^a,c   Lin, Ridwan ^a   Zaidi, Syed F ^a   Aleu, Aitziber ^a   Jankowitz, Brian T ^a   Jumaa, Mouhammad A ^a   Reddy, Vivek K ^a   Hammer, Maxim D ^a   Wechsler, Lawrence R ^a   Horowitz, Michael B ^a   Jovin, Tudor G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

acute stroke; angioplasty and stenting; endovascular treatment; stenting; stents

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; UROKINASE;

ADULT; AGE; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; DEVICE THERAPY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANKIN SCALE; RECANALIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOSIS; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 79958273700     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.595520     Document Type: Article

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