Rotational vertebrobasilar ischemia: Hemodynamlc assessment and surgical treatment

Neurosurgery

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 36-43

  Vilela, Marcelo D ^a   Goodkin, Robert ^a   Lundin, David A ^a   Newell, David W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bow hunter's stroke; Cervical osteophytes; Transcranial Doppler; Vertebral artery; Vertebrobasilar insufficiency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MALE; OSTEOPHYTE; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FUSION; STROKE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VELOCITY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

AGED; DECISION TREES; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 11144248237     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000146441.93026.CE     Document Type: Article

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