Endovascular Management of Spontaneous Bilateral Symptomatic Vertebral Artery Dissections

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2052-2056

  Cohen, José E ^a   Gomori, John Moshe ^a   Umansky, Felix ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; EPTIFIBATIDE; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOPLASTY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG INDICATION; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; STENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; STENTS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION;

EID: 0345686493     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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