White matter lesions and intra-arterial thrombolysis

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 259, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1331-1336

  Jung, Simon ^a   Mono, Marie Luise ^a   Findling, Oliver ^a   Fischer, Urs ^a   Galimanis, Aekaterini ^a   Weck, Anja ^a   De Marchis, Gian Marco ^a   Ballinari, Pietro ^a   Gralla, Jan ^a   Brekenfeld, Caspar ^a   Schroth, Gerhard ^a   Arnold, Marcel ^a   Mattle, Heinrich P ^a   El Koussy, Marwan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Intra arterial; Leukoaraiosis; Outcome; Thrombolysis; White matter lesions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANKIN SCALE; RECANALIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHITE MATTER LESION;

AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84864287495     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-011-6352-y     Document Type: Article

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