Painless aortic dissection with unusual extension into intracranial internal carotid arteries

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 314-315

  Stanley, Iyadurai ^a   Sharma, Vijay K ^a,b   Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^a   Lao, Annabelle Y ^a   Alexandrov, Andrei V ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; HEART ENZYME;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY ANEURYSM; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LETHARGY; MEDIASTINUM; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VISUAL DEPRIVATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL, DISSECTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34548064844     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000106517     Document Type: Article

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