Isolated posterior cerebral artery dissection - Case report and review of the literature

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 671-675

  Kawahara, Ichiro ^a   Hiu, Takeshi ^b   Onizuka, Masanari ^b   Toda, Keisuke ^b   Baba, Hiroshi ^b   Yonekura, Masaharu ^b  

^a Nagasaki Rousai Hospital   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Arterial dissection; MRI MRA; Posterior cerebral artery (PCA); Young people

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PARESTHESIA; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; RADIODIAGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0038463787     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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