Hemifacial spasm due to compression of the facial nerve by vertebral artery-posterior inferior cerebellar artery aneurysm and elongated vertebral artery - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 884-887

  Moriuchi, Shusuke ^a,b   Nakagawa, Hidemitsu ^a   Yamada, Masanobu ^a   Kadota, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Hemifacial spasm; Vertebral artery; Warning sign

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FACE SPASM; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MUSCLE SPASM; NERVE COMPRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

FACIAL NERVE DISEASES; FACIAL PAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MIDDLE AGED; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0030472616     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.36.884     Document Type: Article

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