Conceptos modernos

Enfermedad vertebrobasilar

En los últimos 15 años, los conceptos sobre la clínica, etiología, mecanismos, tratamiento y pronóstico de la isquemia de la circulación posterior han cambiado sustancialmente.

Autor/a: Dres. Sean I. Savitz, Louis R. Caplan

Fuente: N Engl J Med.Volume 352(25):2618-2626. 23 junio, 2005

Indice
1. Bibliografía
2. Desarrollo
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3. Caplan LR. Posterior circulation ischemia: then, now, and tomorrow -- the Thomas Willis Lecture-2000. Stroke 2000;31:2011-2023. 

4. Millikan CH, Siekert RG. Studies in cerebrovascular disease: the syndrome of intermittent insufficiency of the basilar arterial system. Mayo Clin Proc 1955;30:61-68. 

5. Caplan LR, Wityk RJ, Glass TA, et al. New England Medical Center Posterior Circulation Registry. Ann Neurol 2004;56:389-398. 

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10. Gorelick PB, Caplan LR, Hier DB, et al. Racial differences in the distribution of posterior circulation occlusive disease. Stroke 1985;16:785-790. 

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16. Caplan LR. Intracranial branch atheromatous disease: a neglected, understudied, and underused concept. Neurology 1989;39:1246-1250. [Erratum, Neurology 1990;40:725.] 

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