Bilateral cerebellar infarction caused by intracranial dissection of the vertebral artery after long periods of "Shiatsu"

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 169-171

  Iwanami, Hisatake ^a   Odaka, Masaaki ^b   Hirata, Koichi ^b  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cerebellar infarction; Intracranial vertebral artery dissection; Shiatsu

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SHIATSU; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS; ACUPRESSURE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBELLUM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; INFARCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION;

ACUPRESSURE; ACUTE DISEASE; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANTS; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MIDDLE AGED; PIPECOLIC ACIDS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION; WARFARIN; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFARCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33847054284     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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