Vertebral Artery Dissection
"Vertebral Artery Dissection" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Splitting of the vessel wall in the VERTEBRAL ARTERY. Interstitial hemorrhage into the media of the vessel wall can lead to occlusion of the vertebral artery, aneurysm formation, or THROMBOEMBOLISM. Vertebral artery dissection is often associated with TRAUMA and injuries to the head-neck region but can occur spontaneously.
| Descriptor ID |
D020217
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.228.140.300.350.875 C10.900.250.650 C14.907.055.050.575 C14.907.253.535.800 C26.915.200.600
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| Concept/Terms |
Vertebral Artery Dissection- Vertebral Artery Dissection
- Artery Dissection, Vertebral
- Artery Dissections, Vertebral
- Dissection, Vertebral Artery
- Dissections, Vertebral Artery
- Vertebral Artery Dissections
- Dissecting Vertebral Artery Aneurysm
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| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Vertebral Artery Dissection" by people in Profiles.
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"Stent-Within-a-Stent Technique": Nothing New Under the Sun. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2004 Apr; 25(4):663; author reply 663.
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Lateral medullary infarction secondary to vertebral artery dissection presenting as a trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia. Headache. 2004 Jan; 44(1):70-4.
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Treatment of a ruptured dissecting vertebral artery aneurysm with double stent placement: case report. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2001 Nov-Dec; 22(10):1844-8.
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Vertebral artery dissection and migraine headaches in children. J Child Neurol. 2000 Oct; 15(10):694-6.