Hemorrhage in brain stem cavernoma presenting with torticollis

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-52

  Agrawal, Amit ^a   Cincu, Rafael ^b   Joharapurkar, S R ^a   Bhake, Arvind ^a   Hiwale, Kishore M ^a  

^a DATTA MEGHE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MIGUEL SERVET   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brain stem cavernoma; Midbrain; Torticollis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BICYCLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; FALLING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MESENCEPHALON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORTICOLLIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; BICYCLING; BRAIN STEM HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; CHILD; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MESENCEPHALON; PONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TORTICOLLIS;

EID: 61349165542     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000204903     Document Type: Article

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