Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery images and stroke outcome after thrombolysis

Stroke

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 539-542

  Ebinger, Martin ^a,b   Kufner, Anna ^b   Galinovic, Ivana ^b   Brunecker, Peter ^a   Malzahn, Uwe ^a   Nolte, Christian H ^a,b   Endres, Matthias ^a,b   Fiebach, Jochen B ^a  

^a Center for Stroke Research Berlin   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

acute stroke; magnetic resonance imaging; thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; FEMALE; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENCHYMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ODDS RATIO; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856457270     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.632026     Document Type: Article

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