QEEG may uniquely inform and expedite decisions regarding intra-arterial clot retrieval in acute stroke

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 124, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1913-1914

  Sheikh, Nabeel ^a,b,c   Wong, Andrew ^b,c   Read, Stephen ^b,c   Coulthard, Alan ^b   Finnigan, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

AGED; APHASIA; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DROWSINESS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; LIMB WEAKNESS; MEDICAL HISTORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEAKNESS;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; STROKE;

EID: 84881109978     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.03.008     Document Type: Letter

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