Carotid and vertebral artery injury following severe head or cervical spine trauma

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 202-209

  Rommel, Oliver ^a,b   Niedeggen, Andreas ^b   Tegenthoff, Martin ^a   Kiwitt, Paul ^a   Bötel, Uwe ^b   Malin, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a Univ Dept of Clinical Neurology   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carotid artery injury; Cervical spine trauma; Doppler ultrasonography; Head injury; Vertebral artery injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY INJURY; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY INJURIES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0033029197     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000015956     Document Type: Article

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