The medial medullary infarction (Dejerine syndrome) following chiropractic neck manipulation

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 121-125

  Yokota, Jun Ichi ^a   Amakusa, Yayoi ^a   Tomita, Yutaka ^b   Takahashi, Shin Ichi ^b  

^a Amakusa Hospital   (Japan)

^b Saitama Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chiropractic cervical manipulation; Dejerine's syndrome; Magnetic resonance angiography(MRA); Medial medullary infarction; Vertebral artery dissection

Indexed keywords

LUPUS ANTICOAGULANT; PROTEIN C; PROTEIN S;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DEJERINE SYNDROME; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE DISEASE; MALE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; NAUSEA; NECK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOLYSIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLOSIS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTIGO; VOMITING; WALLENBERG SYNDROME;

ADULT; BRAIN INFARCTION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MANIPULATION, CHIROPRACTIC; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NECK; SYNDROME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION;

EID: 0037299311     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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