Post traumatic extracranial vertebral artery dissection with locked-in syndrome: a case with MRI documentation and unusually favourable outcome.
Open Access
- 1 October 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
- Vol. 52 (10), 1191-1193
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.52.10.1191
Abstract
A patient with a right vertebral artery dissection occurring after minor head trauma progressed to a massive pontine infarction. An unusually favourable outcome and MRI imaging are discussed.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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