Bow Hunter's Stroke Associated with Atlantooccipital Assimilation: Case Report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 696-700

  Sakai, Kyoji ^a   Tsutsui, Takumi ^a  

^a Kochi Prefectural Aki Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

bow hunter's stroke; single photon emission computed tomography; vertebrobasilar insufficiency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; OSSIFICATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STROKE; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

ADULT; ATLANTO-OCCIPITAL JOINT; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; SPINE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0032886345     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.39.696     Document Type: Article

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