Cervical arterial dissection: Current concepts

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1142, Issue , 2008, Pages 200-217

  Menon, Ranjith K ^a   Norris, John W ^b  

^a WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cervical arterial dissection; Computed tomography angiography; Cranial nerve palsies; Ischemic stroke; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; DIPYRIDAMOLE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ARTERY DISSECTION; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CERVICAL ARTERIAL DISSECTION; CHIROPRACTIC; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NECK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; STENT; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 54949117139     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1444.015     Document Type: Review

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