The death of Porthos, or the first description of vertebrobasilar insufficiency in fiction.
1988; BMJ; Volume: 297; Issue: 6664 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1136/bmj.297.6664.1658
ISSN0959-8138
Autores Tópico(s)History of Medical Practice
ResumoVertebrobasilar insufficiency is a comparatively young clinical entity.Transient cerebral attacks were described in the last 40 years of the nineteenth century by Raynaud in 1862, Weiss in 1882, Bastian in 1886, and Osler in 1896.' Basilar thrombosis was first described by Hayem in 1868,2 but it was not until the clinical and pathological studies of Kubik and Adams were published in 1946' that doctors' interest was really aroused.The term cerebrovascular insufficiency was introduced by Denny-Brown in 1951.
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