Post traumatic extracranial vertebral artery dissection with locked-in syndrome: a case with MRI documentation and unusually favourable outcome.
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.
Rae-Grant
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AD
Division of Neurology, Lehigh Valley Hospital Center, Allentown, PA.
Lin
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F
Yaeger
B A
BA
Barbour
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P
Levitt
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LP
Castaldo
J E
JE
Lester
M C
MC
D000328:Adult; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007238:Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D011149:Pons / Q000098:blood supply*; D011782:Quadriplegia / Q000209:etiology; D014711:Vertebral Artery / Q000473:pathology