Although most studies did not describe the location along the vertebral artery course of the dissection (Fig. 2; labels V1-V4), the proportions in those studies in which location along the vessel was ...

Currently, there is no consensus on the most effective medical therapy for posterior circulation ischemia. To date, there have been no randomized trials studying the use of different antiplatelet ...

CEREBROVASCULAR disease ranked third, after heart disease and cancer, as a cause of death in the United States in 1959. Almost 37,000 of these deaths occurred in persons between thirty-eight and sixty ...

Vertebral Basilar Angiogram. (Left) lateral view; (Right) AP view. This study was performed by injecting contrast into the right vertebra artery, which is well opacified. There is also some retrograde ...

The surgical management of atlantoaxial instability remains one of the most challenging and delicate procedures in spinal surgery. Instability between the atlas (C1) and axis (C2) is often associated ...

CEREBROVASCULAR insufficiency due to subclavian-artery occlusion is more frequent, more simply diagnosed and more easily treated than generally recognized. Only recently has attention been focused on ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN ANTONIO — Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston found that vertebral artery injury occurred ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with cervical spine trauma who had a vertebral artery injury had risk-adjusted increased odds of ...