Jones HR Jr, Millikan CH: Temporal profile (clinical course) of acute carotid system cerebral infarction. Stroke 7: 64-71, 1976 Millikan CH, Siekert RG, Whisnant JP: The clinical pattern in certain types of occlusive cerebrovascular disease. Circulation 22: 1002-1010, 1960 Kubik CS, Adams RD: Occlusion of basilar artery — clinical and pathological study. Brain 69: 6-121, 1946 Millikan CH, Sieke...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Patients with high-grade basilar artery stenosis secondary to thromboembolism are at high risk of developing subsequent vessel occlusion. Optimal medical management of this condition is unclear. SUMMARY OF CASE We present a patient with a small subacute brain stem infarction and filiform distal basilar residual lumen attributable to arterioarterial or cardiogenic emboli...

PURPOSE To determine whether MR angiography can be used to differentiate between the two vascular causes of bithalamic hyperintensity on T2-weighted MR images: "top of the basilar" artery occlusion and deep cerebral vein thrombosis. METHODS A retrospective review identified six patients with bithalamic T2 hyperintensity of vascular causes. MR angiography was performed in four patients, MR ang...

Jones HR Jr, Millikan CH: Temporal profile (clinical course) of acute carotid system cerebral infarction. Stroke 7: 64-71, 1976 Millikan CH, Siekert RG, Whisnant JP: The clinical pattern in certain types of occlusive cerebrovascular disease. Circulation 22: 1002-1010, 1960 Kubik CS, Adams RD: Occlusion of basilar artery — clinical and pathological study. Brain 69: 6-121, 1946 Millikan CH, Sieke...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The diagnostic yield of vertebrobasilar transcranial color-coded duplex ultrasonography (US) is often hampered by insufficient acoustic penetration, anatomic variations, and vessel tortousity. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of echo enhancement on vertebrobasilar transcranial color-coded duplex US. METHODS In 23 consecutive patients (mean age, 61.0 ...

Possible mechanisms of the inhibitory actions of sodium nitroprusside (NaNP) on histamine-induced contractile responses of isolated rabbit aorta, basilar artery and taenia coli were studied. NaNP (3 X 10(-5) M) reduced maximum contractile response to histamine in the aorta, whereas a concentration (10(-4) M) of NaNP slightly shifted the concentration-response curve for histamine towards its hig...

Introduction: Arterial fenestrations are associated with saccular aneurysms that are often difficult to treat with open surgical techniques. Basilar artery fenestration reported in the literature is highly variable depending on the technique used. Typically fenestration occurs at the lower end of the basilar artery just at the vertebral arteries join. For basilar artery fenestrations associated...

Jones HR Jr, Millikan CH: Temporal profile (clinical course) of acute carotid system cerebral infarction. Stroke 7: 64-71, 1976 Millikan CH, Siekert RG, Whisnant JP: The clinical pattern in certain types of occlusive cerebrovascular disease. Circulation 22: 1002-1010, 1960 Kubik CS, Adams RD: Occlusion of basilar artery — clinical and pathological study. Brain 69: 6-121, 1946 Millikan CH, Sieke...

A saccular aneurysm at the basilar artery bifurcation associated with a persistent primitive hypoglossal artery (PPHA) was successfully treated by endovascular occlusion with Guglielmi detachable coils. As both vertebral arteries were aplasitc, a microcatheter was advanced via PPHA. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report describing the treatment of a basilar top aneurysm th...