Artery-to-artery embolism with a mobile mural thrombus due to rotational vertebral artery occlusion

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 284-286

  Saito, Kozue ^a   Hirano, Makito ^a   Taoka, Toshiaki ^a   Nakagawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Kitauchi, Takanori ^a   Tanizawa, Emi ^a   Yoshida, Koichi ^a   Sakurai, Yoshihiko ^a   Tamura, Kentaro ^a   Nakase, Hiroyuki ^a   Yoshioka, Akira ^a   Sakaki, Toshisuke ^a   Kichikawa, Kimihiko ^a   Ueno, Satoshi ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

artery to artery embolism; Bow hunter's stroke; rotational occlusion; vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN;

ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; STROKE; THALAMUS; THROMBOPHILIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS; COMPLICATION; EMBOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

BRAIN INFARCTION; CHILD; EMBOLISM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 77952480811     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2008.00309.x     Document Type: Article

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