Seasonal variability in spontaneous cervical artery dissection

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 677-679

  Paciaroni, M ^a   Georgiadis, D ^b   Arnold, M ^c   Gandjour, J ^b   Keseru, B ^c   Fahrni, G ^b   Caso, V ^b   Baumgartner, Ralf W ^b  

^a SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA DISSECTION; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA ISCHEMIA; SEASONAL VARIATION; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTERINE CERVIX; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; ADULT; AORTA ANEURYSM; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; STATISTICS; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL, DISSECTION; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; STATISTICS; SWITZERLAND; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION;

EID: 33646920160     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2005.077073     Document Type: Article

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