The importance of size: Successful recanalization by intravenous thrombolysis in acute anterior stroke depends on thrombus length

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1775-1777

  Riedel, Christian H ^a   Zimmermann, Philip ^a   Jensen Kondering, Ulf ^a   Stingele, Robert ^a   Deuschl, Günther ^a   Jansen, Olav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

cerebral ischemia; computed tomography; ischemic stroke

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; STROKE; THROMBUS;

AGED; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79958282061     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.609693     Document Type: Article

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