vertebral artery

The left vertebral artery is usually larger and carries more blood.

A spur of bone had pinched off a vertebral artery.

Vertebral artery dissection has also been reported in association with some forms of neck manipulation.

Other anastomoses between the carotid and vertebral arteries support this effect.

Women in the symptomatic group experienced the most severe compression of the vertebral artery during the study.

It can also result in serious complications such as vertebral artery dissection followed by stroke.

Spontaneous vertebral artery dissection was described in the 1970s.

The vertebral artery may be divided into four parts:

The following day, she underwent neurosurgery to repair a tear in a vertebral artery.

Four treatment modalities have been reported in the treatment of vertebral artery dissection.

The vertebral arteries are major arteries of the neck.

From postmortem studies, he provided information on the carotid and vertebral arteries that supply the brain with blood.

Within the cranium the two vertebral arteries fuse into the basilar artery.

The grandmother's misadventure most likely came about when not enough vertebral artery blood reached certain communities of nerve cells on its journey through the brain.

Not everyone who has suffered a dissected carotid or vertebral artery has been as fortunate.

The plexus surrounds segments of the vertebral artery.

At rest, 20% of the cardiac output flows to the brain via the internal carotid and vertebral arteries.

The causes of vertebral artery dissection can be grouped under two main categories, spontaneous and traumatic.

Various diagnostic modalities exist to demonstrate blood flow or absence thereof in the vertebral arteries.

On rare occasions, surrounding bone may jut into the canals through which the vertebral arteries pass in the neck.

Except for the cord and its attendant meninges, the cut involved only the left and right vertebral arteries."

It is located distally to the vertebral artery and proximally to the costocervical trunk.

In a common anatomic variant the vertebral artery passes through an arcuate foramen.

This is a result of the vertebral artery becoming occluded as it passes up in the transverse foramen.

Severe occlusion of this or vertebral arteries could lead to Horner's Syndrome as well.