A case of bow hunter's stroke caused by bilateral vertebral artery occlusive change on head rotation to the right

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 417-422

  Shinohara, Naoki ^a,c   Kohno, Kanehisa ^b   Takeda, Sadanori ^a   Ohta, Shinsuke ^b   Sakaki, Saburo ^d  

^a Department of Neurological Surgery Saiseikai Imabari Hospital

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Saiseikai Imabari Hospital   (Japan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Bilateral vertebral artery stenosis; Bow hunter's stroke; Cervical spondylosis; Mechanical compression; Vertebrobasilar insufficiency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; OSTEOPHYTE; STROKE; VERTEBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0031862494     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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