Bilateral Carotid and Vertebral Artery Dissection from Blunt Trauma

Carotid and vertebral artery injuries are rare following blunt trauma. They can, however, lead to severe consequences with a significant associated rate of stroke and intracranial hemorrhage, particularly if the diagnosis and treatment are delayed. We report a case of a 23-year-old female who presen...

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Autores principales: Coss, Catherine, Jones, Jeffrey
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5867688/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29721341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1919034
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description Carotid and vertebral artery injuries are rare following blunt trauma. They can, however, lead to severe consequences with a significant associated rate of stroke and intracranial hemorrhage, particularly if the diagnosis and treatment are delayed. We report a case of a 23-year-old female who presented to the Emergency Department with bilateral carotid and vertebral artery dissection following a motor vehicle collision (MVC).
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spelling pubmed-58676882018-05-02 Bilateral Carotid and Vertebral Artery Dissection from Blunt Trauma Coss, Catherine Jones, Jeffrey Case Rep Emerg Med Case Report Carotid and vertebral artery injuries are rare following blunt trauma. They can, however, lead to severe consequences with a significant associated rate of stroke and intracranial hemorrhage, particularly if the diagnosis and treatment are delayed. We report a case of a 23-year-old female who presented to the Emergency Department with bilateral carotid and vertebral artery dissection following a motor vehicle collision (MVC). Hindawi 2018-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5867688/ /pubmed/29721341 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1919034 Text en Copyright © 2018 Catherine Coss and Jeffrey Jones. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Bilateral Carotid and Vertebral Artery Dissection from Blunt Trauma
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