Spontaneous carotid artery dissection in a patient with Turner syndrome

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 543-544

  Fuentes, Karel ^a   Silveira, Diosely C ^a   Papamitsakis, Nikolaos I H ^a,b  

^a NEW JERSEY NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; THYROID HORMONE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TURNER SYNDROME; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NECK; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TURNER SYNDROME;

EID: 37349122488     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000111221     Document Type: Article

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