Abnormal course of the vertebral artery at the craniovertebral junction in patients with Down syndrome visualized by three-dimensional CT angiography

Neuroradiology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 485-490

  Yamazaki, Masashi ^a   Okawa, Akihiko ^a   Hashimoto, Mitsuhiro ^a   Aiba, Atsuomi ^a   Someya, Yukio ^a   Koda, Masao ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anomaly; Craniovertebral junction; Down syndrome; Three dimensional computed tomography angiography; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY MALFORMATION; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL SUBLUXATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON MALFORMATION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPONDYLOSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DISLOCATIONS; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 44649115859     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-008-0368-8     Document Type: Article

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