Arterial elongation ("redundancy") is not a feature of spontaneous cervical artery dissection

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 258, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 250-254

  Dittrich, Ralf ^a,b   Nassenstein, Isabelle ^a,b   Harms, Siri ^a   Maintz, David ^a,b   Heindel, Walter ^a,b   Kuhlenbäumer, Gregor ^c   Ringelstein, Erich Bernd ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cervical artery dissection; Elongation; MRI; Redundancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CERVICAL ARTERY ELONGATION; CERVICAL ARTERY LENGTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS CERVICAL ARTERY DISSECTION; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 79953805070     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-010-5737-7     Document Type: Article

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