Limb-shaking Transient Ischemic Attack Masquerading as Lumbar Radiculopathy from Pericallosal Artery Stenosis Treated Successfully with Intracranial Angioplasty and Stenting

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 169-173

  Kalia, Junaid ^a   Wolfe, Thomas ^a   Zaidat, Osama O ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

anterior cerebral artery; balloon angioplasty; intracranial stenosis; intracranial stenting; leg shaking; Limb shaking; neuroendovascular; pericallosal; stroke; transient ischemic attack; wingspan

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LEG DISEASE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; STENT; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTOR CORTEX; RADICULOPATHY; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; SPONDYLOSIS; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREMOR;

EID: 77049122061     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2009.07.008     Document Type: Article

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