Carotid occlusive disease presenting with loss of consciousness

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-34

  Kashiwazaki, Daina ^a,b   Kuroda, Satoshi ^a   Terasaka, Shunsuke ^b   Ishikawa, Tatsuya ^a   Shichinohe, Hideo ^a   Aoyama, Takeshi ^b   Ushikoshi, Satoshi ^b   Nunomura, Mitsuru ^b   Iwasaki, Yoshinobu ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Teine Keijinnkai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Internal carotid artery; Ischemia; Occlusion; Syncope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; DEHYDRATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYNCOPE; TEMPORAL ARTERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 12444261751     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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