Lateral medullary ischaemic events in young adults with hypoplastic vertebral artery

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 987-989

  Giannopoulos, Sotirios ^a   Markoula, Sofia ^a   Kosmidou, Maria ^b   Pelidou, Sygliti Henrietta ^a   Kyritsis, Athanassios P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOPIDOGREL; PRAVASTATIN; PROPRANOLOL; RAMIPRIL;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; ISCHEMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; WALLENBERG SYNDROME;

EID: 34249798418     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2006.106419     Document Type: Article

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