Vertebral artery dissection onset mimics migraine with aura in a graphic designer

Headache

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 621-624

  Morelli, Nicola ^a,b,c,d   Mancuso, Michelangelo ^a   Gori, Sara ^a   Maluccio, Maria Rosaria ^a   Cafforio, Gianfranco ^a   Chiti, Alberto ^a   Orlandi, Giovanni ^a   Ceretti, Enrico ^c   Tartaglione, Antonio ^b   Murri, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c Diagnostic Radiology Unit   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artery dissection; Magnetic resonance; Migraine with aura

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN; IBUPROFEN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DYSMETRIA; FAMILY HISTORY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL DISORDER;

ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEPARIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION;

EID: 41549089630     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2008.01066.x     Document Type: Article

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