Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of proximal vertebral artery stenosis: Long-term clinical follow-up of 16 consecutive patients

Neuroradiology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 81-84

  Janssens, E ^a   Leclerc, X ^a   Gautier, C ^a   Godefroy, O ^a   Koussa, M ^a   Henon H ^a   Lucas, C ^a   Leys, D ^a   Pruvo, J P ^a  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Outcome; Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty; Vertebral artery stenosis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; TICLOPIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RESTENOSIS; SAFETY; STENT; SYMPTOM; TIME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 1342346880     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-002-0895-7     Document Type: Article

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