Endovascular treatment of basilar artery occlusion by manual aspiration thrombectomy

Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 110-114

  Jankowitz, Brian T ^a   Aleu, Aitziber ^a   Lin, Ridwan ^a   Jumaa, Mouhammad ^a   Kanaan, Hilal ^a   Kostov, Dean ^a   Hammer, Maxim ^a   Uchino, Ken ^a   Wechsler, Larry R ^a   Horowitz, Michael ^a   Jovin, Tudor G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; HEPARIN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CATHETER; BASILAR ARTERY; BASILAR ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CRANIOTOMY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MALE; MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY; MENINGIOMA; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PERISYLVIAN MENINGIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; SURVIVAL RATE; SYRINGE; THROMBUS ASPIRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BASILAR ARTERY; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUCTION; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79959205082     PISSN: 17598478     EISSN: 17598486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnis.2009.001420     Document Type: Article

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