Basilar artery vasculitis secondary to sphenoid sinusitis: Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 454-457

  Sorimachi, Takatoshi ^a   Kamada, Kenichi ^b   Ozawa, Tsunenori ^c   Takeuchi, Shigekazu ^c  

^a Nishiogi Central Hospital   (Japan)

^b Department of Neurosurgery   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abscess; Cerebral infarction; Sphenoid sinusitis; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

UROKINASE;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SINUSITIS; SPHENOID SINUS; VASCULITIS;

ADULT; BRAIN ABSCESS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SPHENOID SINUSITIS; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0034800473     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.41.454     Document Type: Article

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