Sonographic detection of haemodynamic changes in a case of vertebrobasilar insufficiency

Neuroradiology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 164-166

  Nakamura, K ^a,b   Saku, Y ^a,b   Torigoe, R ^b   Ibayashi, S ^a   Fujishima, M ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compression, arterial; Surgical decompression; Ultrasonography; Vertebrobasilar insufficiency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY COMPRESSION; ARTICLE; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; CASE REPORT; DECOMPRESSION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FAINTNESS; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRAL ARTERIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY; VERTIGO;

CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ROTATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0031725286     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002340050560     Document Type: Article

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