Hypertensive encephalopathy with prominent bulbar presentation.

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  • Joshua Z Willey
  • Jan Claassen
  • Bernardo Liberato
  • Shyam Prabhakaran
چکیده

210 of CCA and/or ECA dissection. Thus, we estimate the prevalence of this type of dissection to be less than 1% of all cervical artery dissections. The reasons for the low frequency might be a different ultrastructure of the vessel wall in the CCA and ECA, but underdiagnosis due to a lack of attention regarding dissection of the ECA is also possible because dissection occurs without severe consequences/sequelae for the patients.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Cerebrovascular diseases

دوره 21 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006