This case demonstrates traumatic cervical vertebral artery dissection and occlusion caused by a fracture through the transverse foramen of the cervical spine. Etiologies for vertebral artery ...

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 ...

The vertebrobasilar arterial supply feeds the brain stem (medulla, pons, and midbrain), cerebellum, occipital lobes, posterior temporal lobes, and thalamus (not visible in this view). The arterial ...

Chronic vertebral basilar artery occlusion is one of the most common causes of ischemic stroke, which accounts for roughly 20% of all cases. However, the evidence for the precise clinical effect in ...

Extracranial vertebral artery stenosis can be safely and effectively treated with stenting or angioplasty alone, according to a systematic review of the literature published online June 23, 2011, ...