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Stroke Research and Treatment
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 716919, 6 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/716919
Clinical Study

Altered Hemodynamics Associated with Pathogenesis of the Vertebral Artery Dissecting Aneurysms

Akira Kurata,1 Sachio Suzuki,1 Kazuhisa Iwamoto,1 Kuniaki Nakahara,1 Katsutoshi Abe,1 Madoka Inukai,1 June Niki,1 Makoto Sasaki,1 Kiyotaka Fujii,1 Shingo Konno,2 Shinichi Kan,3 and Kazuaki Fukasaku4

1Department of Neurosurgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa 228-8555, Japan
2Department of Critical Care Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Japan
3Department of Radiology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Japan
4Bio-Research Infrastructure Construction Team, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan

Received 29 December 2011; Accepted 16 January 2012

Academic Editor: Stefan Schwab

Copyright © 2012 Akira Kurata 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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