Internal jugular vein valve incompetence in transient global amnesia: More circumstantial evidence or the proof solving the mystery?

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-2

  Altamura, Claudia ^a   Vernieri, Fabrizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY OCCLUSION; BRAIN VEIN; EDITORIAL; EMOTIONAL STRESS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN VALVE INCOMPETENCE; ISCHEMIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA; VASCULAR DISEASE; VEIN VALVE; VENOUS PRESSURE;

AMNESIA, TRANSIENT GLOBAL; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; VENOUS VALVES;

EID: 74049111902     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.569582     Document Type: Editorial

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