Embolic cerebellar infarction caused by spontaneous dissection of the extracranial vertebral artery - Two case reports

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 310-314

  Komiyama, Masaki ^a   Morikawa, Toshie ^a   Nakajima, Hideki ^a   Nishikawa, Misao ^a   Yasui, Toshihiro ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiography; Cerebellar infarction; Embolic stroke; Vertebral artery dissection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM INFARCTION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; RECANALIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; VERTEBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0033938617     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.40.310     Document Type: Article

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