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Carotid Artery Dissection
See Also
Cervical Artery Dissection
Traumatic Carotid Dissection
Vertebral Artery Dissection
Vertebral Artery Injury in Blunt Neck Trauma
Pathophysiology
Most common
Cervical Artery Dissection
is of the
Carotid Artery
at 2-3 cm above
Carotid Artery
bifurcation
Causes
See
Cervical Artery Dissection
Findings
Initial
Headache
(most common)
Sudden onset, unilateral constant, throbbing
Headache
Thunderclap Headache
may be present
Ipsilateral
Neck Pain
Horner Syndrome
Typically partial
Horner Syndrome
(
Miosis
and
Ptosis
without
Anhidrosis
)
Later
Anterior cerebral ischemia
Retina
l ischemia
Complications
Anterior circulation
Cerebrovascular Accident
Aneurysm formation
Local mass effect (esp. compression of
CN 9
,
CN 10
and
CN 12
)
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Imaging
See
Cervical Artery Dissection
Management
See
Cervical Artery Dissection
References
Blum (2015) Arch Neurosci 2(4) +PMID:26478890 [PubMed]
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