Vertebral artery dominance and hand preference: Is there a correlation?

Manual Therapy

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 153-156

  Cagnie, Barbara ^a   Petrovic, Mirko ^a   Voet, Dirk ^a   Barbaix, Erik ^b   Cambier, Dirk ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LEFT HANDEDNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; NEUROPIL; REFERENCE VALUES; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 33646365585     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2005.07.005     Document Type: Article

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