Mechanical compression of the extracranial vertebral artery during neck rotation

Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 845-847

  Sakaguchi, M ^a   Kitagawa, Kazou ^a   Hougaku, H ^a   Hashimoto, H ^a   Nagai, Y ^a   Yamagami, H ^a   Ohtsuki, T ^a   Oku, N ^a   Hashikawa, K ^a   Matsushita, K ^a   Matsumoto, M ^b   Hori, M ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTERY COMPRESSION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; ROTATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOM; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS;

EID: 10744229921     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000078081.12097.AE     Document Type: Article

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