Craniocervical arterial dissection: spectrum of imaging findings and differential diagnosis

MH Rodallec, V Marteau, S Gerber, L Desmottes… - Radiographics, 2008 - pubs.rsna.org
Craniocervical artery dissection is a potentially disabling yet probably underrecognized
condition that often occurs in young and middle-aged adults. Accurate and prompt diagnosis …

Cerebrovascular dissections—a review part I: spontaneous dissections

MR Fusco, MR Harrigan - Neurosurgery, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Spontaneous cerebrovascular dissections are subintimal or subadventitial cervical carotid
and vertebral artery wall injuries and are the cause of as many as 2% of all ischemic strokes …

Botulinum toxin is a useful treatment in excessive drooling of saliva

KP Bhatia, A Münchau, P Brown - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery …, 1999 - jnnp.bmj.com
Central pontine and extrapontine myelinolysis (CPEM) are recognised complications of
hyponatraemia and its overly rapid correction. 1 CPEM usually presents with spastic …

MRI and MR angiography of vertebral artery dissection

M Mascalchi, MC Bianchi, S Mangiafico, G Ferrito… - Neuroradiology, 1997 - Springer
A review of 4,500 angiograms yielded 11 patients with dissection of the vertebral arteries
who had MRI and (in 4 patients) MR angiography (MRA) in the acute phase of stroke. One …

Added value of high-resolution MR imaging in the diagnosis of vertebral artery dissection

O Naggara, F Louillet, E Touze, D Roy… - American journal …, 2010 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKROUND AND PURPOSE: The optimal imaging method for the diagnosis of VAD
remains undefined. Our aim was to evaluate the added value of HR-MR imaging for the …

[HTML][HTML] Traumatic vertebral artery injury: a review of the screening criteria, imaging spectrum, mimics, and pitfalls

P Sharma, R Hegde, A Kulkarni, S Sharma… - Polish Journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose Traumatic vertebral artery injury (TVAI) can have a varied clinical presentation and
appearance on imaging. In this review, we present the screening criteria, spectrum of …

Causes of misinterpretation of cross-sectional imaging studies for dissection of the craniocervical arteries

JM Provenzale, B Sarikaya… - American Journal of …, 2011 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. This review presents some of the more common causes of false-positive and
false-negative interpretations of cross-sectional imaging studies showing, or designed to …

Imaging the vertebral artery

KY Tay, JM U-King-Im, RA Trivedi, NJ Higgins… - European …, 2005 - Springer
Although conventional intraarterial digital subtraction angiography remains the gold
standard method for imaging the vertebral artery, noninvasive modalities such as …

Clinical presentation, magnetic resonance angiography, ultrasound findings, and stroke patterns in patients with vertebral artery dissection

A Günther, OW Witte, M Freesmeyer, R Drescher - European Neurology, 2016 - karger.com
Background/Aims: Vertebral artery dissection (VAD) is an important cause of ischemic
stroke. In this observational study, clinical data, magnetic resonance (MR) and ultrasound …

Magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic resonance and catheter angiography for diagnosis of cervical artery dissection

M Paciaroni, V Caso, G Agnelli - Handbook on cerebral artery …, 2005 - karger.com
Catheter angiography has been considered the standard of reference for the diagnosis of
spontaneous cervical artery dissection (CAD), but carries a risk of complications and does …