Neurological picture. Dispersion and 'salted pretzel sign' from thrombolysis of a spontaneous calcified embolus in an acute stroke

J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2013 Jan;84(1):111-2. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2012-303298. Epub 2012 Aug 9.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Calcinosis / drug therapy
  • Calcinosis / pathology*
  • Cerebral Cortex / blood supply
  • Cerebral Cortex / pathology
  • Humans
  • Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery / complications
  • Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery / drug therapy
  • Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery / pathology*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Stroke / drug therapy
  • Stroke / etiology
  • Stroke / pathology*
  • Thrombolytic Therapy / adverse effects*
  • Thrombolytic Therapy / methods
  • Tissue Plasminogen Activator / therapeutic use
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Tissue Plasminogen Activator