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Too old to thrombolyse?
  1. P C A J Vroomen
  1. Correspondence to:
 P C A J Vroomen
 Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, PO Box 30001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands; c.a.j.vroomen{at}neuro.azg.nl

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  • Published Online First 30 March 2006

  • Competing interests: None declared.

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