Cervical carotid or vertebral artery dissection

Carotid and Vertebral Artery Dissection

Carotid and vertebral artery dissection syndromes.

Cervicocerebral arterial dissections (CAD) are an important cause of strokes in younger patients accounting for nearly 20% of strokes in patients under the age of 45 years. Extracranial internal carotid artery dissections comprise 70%-80% and extracranial vertebral dissections account for about 15% of all CAD. Aetiopathogenesis of CAD is incompletely understood, though trauma, respiratory infec...

Cervical Spine Fracture With Vertebral Artery Dissection.

A 51-year-old man presented to a direct-access physical therapy clinic with persistent neck pain for 5 days after a fall in shallow water while surfing. Based on "dangerous mechanism of injury" from the Canadian cervical spine rule as being a high risk factor, the physical therapist ordered radiographs of the cervical spine, which were suggestive of a more serious injury. Computed tomography su...

Traumatic intracerebral infarction due to vertebral and carotid artery dissection.

To cite: Ellanti P, Hurson C. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2014-207286 DESCRIPTION A 38-year-old woman presented to the emergency department subsequent to a high-velocity single vehicle road traffic accident with a fracture of left ulna and radius, right clavicle and sacrum. There was no history of loss of consciousness. Her Glasgow Coma Scale ...

Recurrent carotid artery vasospasm or dissection?

Recurrent Carotid Artery Vasospasm or Dissection? To the Editor: We find the article by Janzarik et al1 reporting extracranial artery vasospasm very unconvincing. As the authors say, it is a rare phenomenon, if it ever occurs at all. Vasospasm was said to occur during direct insertion of the needle into the extracranial cervical arteries during angiography, but we suspect that in most if not al...