Vasomotion in multiple spontaneous cervical artery dissections

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1148-1151

  Baracchini, Claudio ^a   Tonello, Simone ^a   Vitaliani, Roberta ^a   Giometto, Bruno ^a   Meneghetti, Giorgio ^b   Ballotta, Enzo ^b  

^a OSPEDALE CA FONCELLO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carotid artery; Dissection; Stroke; Ultrasonography; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; BRAIN ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY; CERVICAL ARTERY DISSECTION; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; VASODILATATION; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS, MECHANICAL; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION;

EID: 41149168808     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.497362     Document Type: Article

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