Spontaneous symptomatic intracranial vertebrobasilar dissection: Initial and follow-up imaging findings

Radiology

Volumn 264, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 196-202

  Ahn, Sung Soo ^a   Kim, Byung Moon ^a   Suh, Sang Hyun ^b   Kim, Dong Joon ^a   Kim, Dong Ik ^a   Shin, Yong Sam ^c   Ha, Sam Youl ^a   Kwon, Young Sub ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOMATIC INTRACRANIAL VERTEBROBASILAR DISSECTION; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BASILAR ARTERY; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 84862651042     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12112331     Document Type: Article

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