Bow hunter's stroke caused by a nondominant vertebral artery occlusion: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1393-1395

  Matsuyama, Takeshi ^a   Morimoto, Tetsuya ^a   Sakaki, Toshisuke ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bow hunter's stroke; Nondominant vertebral artery; Posterior fixation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS; VERTIGO; WALLENBERG SYNDROME;

EID: 0030834451     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199712000-00030     Document Type: Article

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