Seventy patients with spontaneous and 21 with traumatic extracranial internal carotid artery dissections were studied clinically and angiographically with mean follow-ups of 64 (spontaneous group) and 40 months (traumatic group). Sixty percent of the patients in the spontaneous group and 71% in the
Spontaneous dissection of both extracranial internal carotid arteries
✍ Scribed by L. Milandre; S. Pérot; G. Salamon; R. Khalil
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 555 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0028-3940
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