Bulbovascular compression by megadolichobasilar artery manifested as neurogenic and refractory hypertension

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 359-364

  Ishikawa, Tatsuya ^a   Nagayama, Masao ^a   Iida, Masahiro ^a   Shinohara, Yukito ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bulbovascular compression; Juvenile hypertension; Megadolichobasilar artery; Opalski syndrome; Rostral ventrolateral medulla

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY COMPRESSION; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN DISEASE; BULBOVASCULAR COMPRESSION; CISTERNOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DIZZINESS; HEARING LOSS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MEGADOLICHOBASILAR ARTREY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPALSKI SYNDROME; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; SYNDROME; TENDON REFLEX; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

ADULT; BASILAR ARTERY; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 3242755192     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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