Spontaneous resolution of nontraumatic bilateral intracranial vertebral artery dissections - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 491-495

  Fukunaga, Atsushi ^b   Tabuse, Masanao ^b   Naritaka, Heiji ^b   Nakamura, Tsuneo ^b   Akiyama, Takenori ^a  

^a Saiseikai Kanagawa ken Hospital   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bilateral vertebral arteries; Dissection; Resolution

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VERTEBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; WALLENBERG SYNDROME;

CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LATERAL MEDULLARY SYNDROME; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION;

EID: 0036857076     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.42.491     Document Type: Article

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