Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome

Practical Neurology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 256-267

  Ducros, Anne ^a   Bousser, Marie Germaine ^a  

^a HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NIMODIPINE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN VASOSPASM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ONSET AGE; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

AGE OF ONSET; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NIMODIPINE; SEX FACTORS; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VASCULAR DISEASES; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 77949323146     PISSN: 14747758     EISSN: 14747766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2009.187856     Document Type: Review

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