Successful repetitive intravenous thrombolysis in a patient with recurrent brainstem infarctions due to megadolichobasilar ectasia

JAMA Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 520-521

  Cambron, Melissa ^a,b   Van Hooff, Robbert Jan ^a,b   Nieboer, Koenraad ^a   De Keyser, Jacques ^a,b,c   Brouns, Raf ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ATORVASTATIN; DIPYRIDAMOLE;

AGED; ATAXIA; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN STEM INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPERESTHESIA; INTERNUCLEAR OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; MALE; MEGADOLICHOBASILAR ECTASIA; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY PREVENTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84876155430     PISSN: 21686149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2013.618     Document Type: Note

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