Blunt carotid and vertebral artery injuries

Injury

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1232-1241

  Arthurs, Zachary M ^a   Starnes, Benjamin W ^b  

^a MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid; Endovascular; Management; Stoke; Trauma; Vascular; Vertebral

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; HEPARIN; TICLOPIDINE;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL HEMORRHAGE; RISK REDUCTION; SCREENING TEST; STENT; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CAROTID ARTERY INJURIES; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; STROKE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 53349167024     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2008.02.042     Document Type: Article

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