Successful Treatment of Hemifacial Spasm Caused by an Ectatic Vertebral Artery Accompanying Agenesis of the Carotid Artery

We report the successful treatment of a patient with hemifacial spasm due to a tortuous vertebral artery that appeared to have developed to compensate for agenesis of the ipsilateral carotid artery. The 51-year-old man presented with a 1-year history of progressive left hemifacial spasm. His medical...

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Autores principales: Takeda, Ririko, Ookawara, Mai, Fushihara, Goji, Kobayashi, Masahito, Fujimaki, Takamitsu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Medical Publishers 2016
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5553477/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28825001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1593447

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