Middle Cerebral Artery Arrow Sign
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Middle Cerebral Artery Arrow Sign
A 54-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with sudden onset severe headache, nausea and vomiting upon waking that morning. On examination, she was alert and oriented, with a mild right facial droop and a right upper extremity pronator drift. A non-contrast computed tomography (CT) of the head revealed diffuse subarachnoid blood, with a prominent triangular focus projecting into ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1936-900X,1936-9018
DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2014.9.23874