Clinically Unidentified Dissection of Vertebral Artery as a Cause of Cerebellar Infarction | Zendy

Hirotaro Iwase | Zendy; Masahiko Kobayashi | Zendy; Atsushi Kurata | Zendy; Shinya Inoué | Zendy

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Clinically Unidentified Dissection of Vertebral Artery as a Cause of Cerebellar Infarction

Author(s) -

Hirotaro Iwase,

Masahiko Kobayashi,

Atsushi Kurata,

Shinya Inoué

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

stroke

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397

H-Index - 319

eISSN - 1524-4628

pISSN - 0039-2499

DOI - 10.1161/01.str.32.6.1422

Subject(s) - medicine , vertebral artery , cerebellar artery , thrombus , autopsy , vertebral artery dissection , infarction , dissection (medical) , radiology , stenosis , surgery , cerebellar hemisphere , angiography , cardiology , myocardial infarction , magnetic resonance imaging

Dissection of vertebral arteries has been reported in association with minor neck movements without signs of trauma on the surface of the neck. In addition, injury of a vertebral artery can cause brain infarctions. However, few cases have been reported in which fatal brain infarction was due to nonocclusive, clinically undetected, traumatic thrombus formation in a vertebral artery.

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