Basilar artery occlusion in children: Misleading presentations, "locked-in" state, and diagnostic importance of accompanying vertebral artery occlusion

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 450-462

  Rosman, N Paul ^a   Adhami, Seema ^a   Mannheim, Glenn B ^a   Katz, Nathaniel P ^a   Klucznik, Richard P ^a   Muriello, Mary Anne ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; DIAZEPAM; HEPARIN; LORAZEPAM; MANNITOL; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; WARFARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DORSAL RHIZOTOMY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; MALE; MIGRAINE; MUTISM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SEIZURE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS;

EID: 0042423533     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/08830738030180070601     Document Type: Article

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