Post Traumatic Extracranial Vertebral Artery Dissection with Locked-In Syndrome: A Case with MRI Documentation and Unusually Favourable Outcome.

Authors

Alexander D. Rae-Grant MD, FRCP, Lehigh Valley Health Network
F Lin, Lehigh Valley Health Network
B A. Yaeger, Lehigh Valley Health Network
Peter J. Barbour MD, Lehigh Valley Health NetworkFollow
Lawrence P. Levitt, Lehigh Valley Health NetworkFollow
John Castaldo MD, Lehigh Valley Health NetworkFollow
Mark C. Lester MD, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Publication/Presentation Date

10-1-1989

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.

Volume

52

Issue

10

First Page

1191

Last Page

1193

ISSN

0022-3050

Published In/Presented At

Rae-Grant, A. D., Lin, F., Yaeger, B. A., Barbour, P., Levitt, L. P., Castaldo, J. E., & Lester, M. C. (1989). Post Traumatic Extracranial Vertebral Artery Dissection with Locked-In Syndrome: a Case with MRI Documentation and Unusually Favourable Outcome. Journal Of Neurology, Neurosurgery, And Psychiatry, 52(10), 1191-1193.

Disciplines

Medical Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences

PubMedID

2795048

LVHN link

http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mnh&AN=2795048&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Department(s)

Department of Medicine, Department of Medicine Faculty, Department of Psychiatry

Document Type

Article