Reversible cerebral vasospasm, multilobular intracerebral hemorrhages, and nonaneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: Review of possible interrelationships

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 228-232

  Hantson, Philippe ^a   Forget, Patrice ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Intracerebral hemorrhage; Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; ENDOTHELIN 1; NIMODIPINE; NORADRENALIN;

BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM RUPTURE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVERSIBLE CEREBRAL VASOCONTRICTION SYNDROME; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THUNDERCLAP HEADACHE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT DURATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COMPLICATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 77956395210     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-010-0106-x     Document Type: Review

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