Histological study of the normal vertebral artery - Etiology of dissecting aneurysms

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 629-635

  Sato, Taku ^a   Sasaki, Tatsuya ^a   Suzuki, Kyouichi ^a   Matsumoto, Masato ^a   Kodama, Namio ^a   Hiraiwa, Kouichi ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dissecting aneurysm; Elastic lamina; Histology; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVENTITIA; AGED; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; ELASTIC FIBER; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 11144331371     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.44.629     Document Type: Article

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