Treatable lesions demonstrated on vertebral angiography for posterior circulation ischaemic events

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 71, Issue 852, 1998, Pages 1266-1270

  Crawley, F ^a   Clifton, A ^b   Brown, M M ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ATKINSON MORLEY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; VERTEBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0032435684     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr.71.852.10318999     Document Type: Article

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