Emergency Evaluation and Treatment of Injury to the Extracranial Carotid and Vertebral Arteries

M. J. Bernadette Stallmeyer; Gregg H. Zoarski; Adam Gittleman; A. Orlando Ortiz; Abraham Obuchowski

doi:10.1055/s-2003-43317

Seminars in Interventional Radiology, Table of Contents

Semin intervent Radiol 2003; 20(2): 125-140
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-43317

Emergency Evaluation and Treatment of Injury to the Extracranial Carotid and Vertebral Arteries

M. J. Bernadette Stallmeyer¹ , Gregg H. Zoarski² , Adam Gittleman³ , A. Orlando Ortiz³ , Abraham Obuchowski²

¹Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, Department of Radiology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland
²Department of Radiology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland
³Department of Radiology, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, New York

Abstract

ABSTRACT

This article describes the evaluation and treatment of injuries to the carotid and vertebral arteries. The diagnosis of the injured vessels by clinical and imaging methods is described. A variety of treatments including the use of stents is given.

KEYWORDS

Trauma - vertebral artery - carotid artery

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