Traumatic laceration of the intracranial vertebral artery causing fatal subarachnoid hemorrhage: Case report

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 566-568

  Asai, Toshiharu ^a   Kataoka, Kazuo ^a   Uejima, Toshifumi ^a   Sakata, Ikuhiro ^a   Taneda, Mamoru ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alcohol intoxication; arterial laceration; dissecting aneurysm; head injury; subarachnoid hemorrhage; vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FATALITY; HEAD INJURY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; RESUSCITATION; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0030174436     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0090-3019(95)00354-1     Document Type: Article

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