A technical approach to dissecting and assessing cadaveric veins pertinent to chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in multiple sclerosis

Neurological Research

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 810-818

  Diaconu, Claudiu I ^a   Staugaitis, Susan M ^b   Fox, Robert J ^b   Rae Grant, Alexander ^b   Schwanger, Cynthia ^b   McBride, Jennifer M ^a  

^a CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Azygos; CCSVI; Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency; Extracranial veins; Internal jugular vein; Multiple sclerosis; Valves; Vein valves

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; AZYGOS VEIN; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CADAVER; CHRONIC CEREBROSPINAL VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; JUGULAR VEIN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PROCEDURES; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THORAX; TRICUSPID VALVE; VEIN;

ANATOMIC VARIATION; AUTOPSY; AZYGOS VEIN; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEINS; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; TISSUE FIXATION; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84866237243     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: 17431328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743132812Y.0000000071     Document Type: Article

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