Cerebrovascular dissections - A review part I: Spontaneous dissections

Neurosurgery

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 242-257

  Fusco, Matthew R ^a   Harrigan, Mark R ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Antithrombotic; Carotid artery; Ischemic stroke; Spontaneous dissection; Vertebral artery; Vertebral artery therapy

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; DIPYRIDAMOLE; HEPARIN; TICLOPIDINE; WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULATION; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY DISSECTION; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CERVICAL ARTERY DISSECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SPONTANEOUS CEREBROVASCULAR DISSECTION; STROKE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL, DISSECTION; HUMANS; STROKE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION;

EID: 78650853286     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3182012323     Document Type: Review

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