Syphilitic arteritis involving the origin of the cervical internal carotid artery

Neurosciences

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 122-125

  Al Shammari, Noufa F ^a   El Beltagi, Ahmed H ^a   Al Far, Sayed A ^a   Abdel Raouf, Yasser M ^a  

^a AL SABAH HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTERITIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LIMB WEAKNESS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSYPHILIS; SEROLOGY; SYPHILIS;

ADULT; BRAIN; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SYPHILIS, CARDIOVASCULAR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 77954495715     PISSN: 13196138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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