Uncommon course for a vertebral artery dissection: Rupture, occlusion and recanalization

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 700-703

  Matsumoto, Yasushi ^a   Nagashima, Hisashi ^b   Toriyama, Toshihide ^c   Kobayashi, Shigeaki ^b   Hongo, Kazuhiro ^d  

^a KOHNAN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Aizawa Hospital   (Japan)

^c Komoro Kosei General Hospital   (Japan)

^d SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arterial dissection; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

PROPOFOL;

ADULT; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FENESTRATION; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECANALIZATION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VERTEBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS;

EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RUPTURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION;

EID: 43049147916     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2007.04.016     Document Type: Article

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