Basilar artery occlusion due to mucormycotic emboli, preceded by acute hydrocephalus

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 18-22

  Inamasu, Joji ^a   Uchida, Koichi ^a   Mayanagi, Keita ^a   Suga, Sadao ^a   Kawase, Takeshi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain stem infarction; Hydrocephalus; Mucormycosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN STEM INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LEUKEMIA; MUCORMYCOSIS; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BASILAR ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MUCORMYCOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034009069     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-8467(99)00065-7     Document Type: Article

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