Randomized Trial of Intraarterial Infusion of Urokinase Within 6 Hours of Middle Cerebral Artery Stroke: The Middle Cerebral Artery Embolism Local Fibrinolytic Intervention Trial (MELT) Japan

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Stroke

• Publication date

  2007-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.488551PMID 17702958
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