Spontaneous multiple cervical artery dissection in the puerperium

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 511-512

  Pires, C ^a   Geraldes, R ^a   Neto, L ^a   Melo, T P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOSOGNOSIA; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERY DISSECTION; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL ARTERY DISSECTION; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DYSARTHRIA; ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MIGRAINE; NECK PAIN; NOTE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; SPINA BIFIDA; SUPRABULBAR OCCLUSION; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANTS; ARTERIES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 80455128671     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000332089     Document Type: Note

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