Post-traumatic vertebral artery dissection
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Post-traumatic vertebral artery dissection.
Correspondence: HG, e-mail: . Received 30 October 2009 and revised version accepted 15 July 2010. Competing interests: none declared. CT angiogram showed eccentric contrast in the left vertebral artery from just after its origin to the level of the C4 vertebral body suggestive of dissection (Figure 2). He was anticoagulated with enoxeparin. He walked independently when he l...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ceylon Medical Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 2386-1274,0009-0875
DOI: 10.4038/cmj.v55i4.2630