False-negative extension/rotation pre-manipulative screening test on a patient with an atretic and hypoplastic vertebral artery

Manual Therapy

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 120-127

  Westaway, M D ^a,b   Stratford, P ^c   Symons, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Private Practice   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL JOINT; ATRESIA; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; FEMALE; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCREENING TEST; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0038304608     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1356-689X(02)00111-X     Document Type: Article

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