Reversible cortical auditory dysfunction caused by cerebral vasospasm after ruptured aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and evaluated by perfusion magnetic resonance imaging: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 161-164

  Tabuchi, Sadaharu ^a   Kadowaki, Mitsutoshi ^a   Watanabe, Takashi ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory agnosia; Cortical auditory dysfunction; Cortical deafness; Perfusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BORDERLINE HYPERTENSION; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HYPERVOLEMIA; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, CENTRAL; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 34347406140     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/JNS-07/07/0161     Document Type: Article

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