Hemifacial spasm due to a compression of the facial nerve by a fusiform aneurysm of the vertebral artery: Case report

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 517-521

  Tsuchiya, Daisuke ^a   Kayama, Takamasa ^a   Saito, Shinjiro ^b   Sato, Shinya ^b  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Fusiform aneurysm; Hemifacial spasm; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM CLIP; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; NERVE COMPRESSION; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VERTEBRAL ARTERIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

AGED; ANEURYSM; FACIAL NERVE DISEASES; FEMALE; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMANS; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0033920640     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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