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Case Reports in Medicine
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 894913, 3 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/894913
Case Report

The Diagnosis of Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency Using Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound

Ibrahim Alnaami,1,2 Muzaffer Siddiqui,3 and Maher Saqqur3

1Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2B7, Canada
2Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, King Khalid University, P.O. Box 641, Abha, Saudi Arabia
3Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2B7, Canada

Received 9 August 2012; Revised 17 October 2012; Accepted 18 October 2012

Academic Editor: Bruno Megarbane

Copyright © 2012 Ibrahim Alnaami et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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