Transient Alpha Coma Following Minor Head Trauma in a Patient with Primitive Trigeminal Artery: —Case Report—

Neurologia medico-chirurgica

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 224-228

  Morioka, Motohiro ^a   Yoshikawa, Makoto ^a   Ushio, Yukitaka ^a   Yoshida, Akimasa ^b  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

alpha coma; angiospasm; head trauma; primitive trigeminal artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR MALFORMATION; COMA; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRIGEMINUS ARTERY; VASOSPASM;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; COMA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029984656     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.36.224     Document Type: Article

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