Medico-legal aspects of traumatic injury of the vertebrobasilar artery

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 549-555

  Hiraiwa, Kouichi ^a   Sato, Taku ^a   Sasaki, Tatsuya ^a   Mizusawa, Ikubumi ^a   Nata, Masayuki ^b   Kodama, Namio ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basilar artery; Legal medicine; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Traumatic injury; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

BASILAR ARTERY; HUMANS; LIABILITY, LEGAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 28444455227     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.45.549     Document Type: Review

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