SPONTANEOUS HEALING OF CERVICAL PSEUDOANEURYSM IN VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION UNDER ANTICOAGULANT-THERAPY

Authors
SOMMER A NEFF W SCHWARTZ A
Citation
A. Sommer et al., SPONTANEOUS HEALING OF CERVICAL PSEUDOANEURYSM IN VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION UNDER ANTICOAGULANT-THERAPY, Neuroradiology, 40(4), 1998, pp. 249-251
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Radiology,Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging","Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Neuroradiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00283940
Volume
40
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
249 - 251
Database
ISI
SICI code
0028-3940(1998)40:4<249:SHOCPI>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
We report a 41-year-old woman with embolic stroke of the mid-pens attr ibuted to embolism from vertebral artery dissection. Angiography revea led an occluded artery on one side and an incidental pseudoaneurysm of the midcervical portion of the vertebral artery on the other. After 3 months of warfarin therapy control angiography showed complete occlus ion of the pseudoaneurysm. We discuss therapeutic choices and review t he literature.