Endovascular treatment of acute intracerebral artery occlusions with the solitaire stent: Single-centre experience with 108 recanalization procedures

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 70-77

  Dorn, F ^a   Stehle, S ^b   Lockau, H ^a   Zimmer, C ^b   Liebig, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endovascular treatment; Solitaire; Stent retriever; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; CORONARY REPERFUSION; CORONARY STENT; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY; MORTALITY; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL APPROACH; THROMBUS ASPIRATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; STROKE; THROMBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84863109493     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000338903     Document Type: Article

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