Craniocervical arterial dissection in children: Diagnosis and treatment

Current Treatment Options in Neurology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 636-648

  Stence, Nicholas V ^a   Fenton, Laura Z ^a   Goldenberg, Neil A ^a   Armstrong Wells, Jennifer ^a   Bernard, Timothy J ^a  

^a Mountain States Regional Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ANTIVITAMIN K; CLOPIDOGREL; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ANAMNESIS; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING DISORDER; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHIROPRACTIC; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CRANIOCERVICAL ARTERIAL DISSECTION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DRUG COST; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXTRACRANIAL CEREBRAL ARTERIAL STENT; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACRANIAL CEREBRAL ARTERIAL STENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REYE SYNDROME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

EID: 81255171671     PISSN: 10928480     EISSN: 15343138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11940-011-0149-2     Document Type: Article

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