Acute painless paraparesis due to bilateral femoral artery occlusion

European Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 553-555

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

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Arterial occlusion; Ischemia; Paraparesis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; STENT; THROMBECTOMY; WALKING;

EID: 35448951400     PISSN: 09536205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2007.02.024     Document Type: Article

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