Cerebrovascular dissections: A review. Part II: Blunt cerebrovascular injury

Neurosurgery

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 517-530

  Fusco, Matthew R ^a   Harrigan, Mark R ^a,b  

^a Kentucky   (United States)

^b Faculty Office Tower 1005 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Blunt trauma; Carotid artery; Traumatic aneurysm; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; HEPARIN;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BLUNT TRAUMA; BLUNT TRAUMATIC CEREBROVASCULAR INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY ANEURYSM; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CAROTID CAVERNOUS FISTULA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHIROPRACTIC; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS;

BRAIN; HUMANS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 79951673284     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3181fe2fda     Document Type: Review

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