Ultrasonographic detection of extracranial vertebral artery compression in bow hunter's brain ischemia caused by neck rotation

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 303-305

  Kamouchi, Masahiro ^a,b   Kishikawa, Kazuhiro ^a   Matsuo, Ryu ^a   Yasumori, Kotaro ^a   Inoue, Tooru ^a   Okada, Yasushi ^a   Ibayashi, Setsuro ^b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYUSHU MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY COMPRESSION; ARTICLE; BOW HUNTERS STROKE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; STROKE; SYNCOPE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTIGO;

AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; ROTATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0042242878     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071134     Document Type: Article

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