Vertebrobasilar dilatative arteriopathy (dolichoectasia)

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1184, Issue , 2010, Pages 121-133

  Lou, Min ^a   Caplan, Louis R ^b  

^a THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain ischemia; Dolichoectasia; Intracranial arteries; Intraluminal thrombi

Indexed keywords

ARTERY DISEASE; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL RUPTURE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; THROMBOGENESIS; TISSUE PERFUSION; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBROBASILAR DOLICHOECTASIA; ARTERY DISSECTION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; BRAIN ARTERY; CRANIAL NERVE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CRANIAL NERVES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; NERVE FIBERS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 77949894726     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.05114.x     Document Type: Review

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