Intracranial vertebral artery dissection mimicking acute peripheral vertigo

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 170-173

  Horii, Arata ^a   Okumura, Kaoru ^a   Kitahara, Tadashi ^a   Kubo, Takeshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Intracranial; MRA; MRI; Neck pain; Vertebral artery dissection; Vertigo

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM INFARCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NECK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTIGO;

AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; BRAIN INFARCTION; CALORIC TESTS; CEREBELLUM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIZZINESS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTIGO;

EID: 31544477203     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480500279977     Document Type: Article

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