Thrombus histology suggests cardioembolic cause in cryptogenic stroke

Stroke

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1864-1871

  Boeckh Behrens, Tobias ^a   Kleine, Justus F ^a   Zimmer, Claus ^a   Neff, Frauke ^b   Scheipl, Fabian ^c   Pelisek, Jaroslav ^a   Schirmer, Lucas ^a   Nguyen, Kim ^a   Karatas, Deniz ^a   Poppert, Holger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

blood cells; histology; pathology; stroke; thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BRAIN HISTOLOGY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOEMBOLIC STROKE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; STROKE PATIENT; THROMBUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLASSIFICATION; ERYTHROCYTE; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; LEUKOCYTE; MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; STAINING; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOSIS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

FIBRIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PLATELETS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FIBRIN; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MECHANICAL THROMBOLYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; STAINING AND LABELING; STROKE; THROMBOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84969835046     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.116.013105     Document Type: Article

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