Utility of CT perfusion scanning in patient selection for acute stroke intervention: Experience at University at Buffalo Neurosurgery-Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Kan, Peter T ^a,b   Snyder, Kenneth V ^a,b   Yashar, Parham ^a,b   Siddiqui, Adnan H ^a,b   Hopkins, L Nelson ^a,b   Levy, Elad I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Computed tomography perfusion; Stroke intervention

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTIGRAPHY; STANDARD; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; PATIENT SELECTION; PERFUSION IMAGING; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79958860052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.2.FOCUS1130     Document Type: Article

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