Early revascularization in a patient with perfusion computed tomography/diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging mismatch secondary to acute vertebral artery occlusion: Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 306-310

  Ogasawara, Kuniaki ^a   Sasaki, Makoto ^a   Tomitsuka, Nobuhiko ^a   Kubo, Yoshitaka ^a   Inoue, Takashi ^a   Ogawa, Akira ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging; Early revascularization; Perfusion computed tomography; Vertebrobasilar artery occlusive disease

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DETERIORATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVASCULARIZATION; STROKE; SUPERFICIAL TEMPORAL ARTERY; SUPERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

AGED; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 21744454471     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.45.306     Document Type: Article

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