Cervical Dissections: Diagnosis, Management, and Endovascular Treatment

Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 257-270

  Ansari, Sameer A ^a   Parmar, Hemant ^b   Ibrahim, Mohannad ^b   Gemmete, Joseph J ^b   Gandhi, Dheeraj ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical dissection; Diagnosis; Dissecting aneurysm; Endovascular treatment; Imaging; Management; Stent reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; TICLOPIDINE; WARFARIN;

ANHIDROSIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ATAXIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DIPLOPIA; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DYSARTHRIA; DYSMETRIA; DYSPHAGIA; EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME; FACE PAIN; HEADACHE; HEMATOMA; HOARSENESS; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MARFAN SYNDROME; MIOSIS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NECK PAIN; NYSTAGMUS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; REVIEW; STENT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNILATERAL HEARING LOSS; VERTIGO; WHIPLASH INJURY;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL, DISSECTION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; STENTS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 65149106630     PISSN: 10525149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nic.2009.01.007     Document Type: Review

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