Basilar artery occlusion presenting as a tonic-clonic seizure

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 314-315

  Gadoth, Avi ^a   Hallevi, Hen ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; PHENYTOIN;

ADULT; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BABINSKI REFLEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; GAIT DISORDER; GAZE PARALYSIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MALE; MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; STENT; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VERTIGO;

ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEIZURES; STROKE;

EID: 79957649114     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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