Histopathologic composition of cerebral thrombi of acute stroke patients is correlated with stroke subtype and thrombus attenuation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Niesten, Joris M ^a   Van Der Schaaf, Irene C ^a   Van Dam, Lievay ^a   Vink, Aryan ^a   Vos, Jan Albert ^b   Schonewille, Wouter J ^b   De Bruin, Peter C ^b   Mali, Willem P T M ^a   Velthuis, Birgitta K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN;

ADULT; AGE; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; MALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; RADIATION ATTENUATION; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBUS;

AGED; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PLATELETS; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FIBRIN; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; THROMBECTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84895826045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088882     Document Type: Article

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