CEREBROVASCULAR insufficiency due to subclavian-artery occlusion is more frequent, more simply diagnosed and more easily treated than generally recognized. Only recently has attention been focused on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Full search strategy, selection, and exclusion criteria are described in the accompanying manuscript on clinical characteristics of VAD. To summarize, we searched MEDLINE and EMBASE for ...

Vertebral Basilar Angiogram. (Left) lateral view; (Right) AP view. This study was performed by injecting contrast into the right vertebra artery, which is well opacified. There is also some retrograde ...

A 60-year-old white female with a known diagnosis of NF1 was evaluated in the emergency department of an outside hospital with a 3-day history of neck pain and swelling, associated with severe ...

During head rotation, neck hyperextension and other provocative manoeuvres of the neck, the vertebral artery may be compressed at various sites along its course.1 A 63-year-old man with a history of ...

Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery issues update to standards and guidelines following research in favor of minimally invasive procedure for deadly type of stroke Through a structured literature ...