Connective tissue and vascular phenotype in patients with cervical artery dissection

Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 2120-2124

  Dittrich, R ^a,c   Heidbreder, A ^a   Rohsbach, D ^a   Schmalhorst, J ^a   Nassenstein, I ^a   Maintz, D ^a   Ringelstein, E B ^a   Nabavi, D G ^b   Kuhlenbaumer G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b VIVANTES KLINIKUM NEUKÖLLN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR HYPERMOBILITY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CERVICAL ARTERY DISSECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL STIGMATA; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN; MALE; NECK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN HYPEREXTENSIBILITY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VASCULAR FRAGILITY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL, DISSECTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; SKIN; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION;

EID: 34250307897     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000264892.92538.a9     Document Type: Article

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