Vertebral Artery Dissection Following Minor Trauma in a Child

• Main Authors: Halil Çelik (Author), Ayşegül Danış (Author), Mutlu Uysal Yazıcı (Author), Mehtap Altuntaş (Author), Berna Uçan (Author), Ülkühan Öztoprak (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Galenos Yayinevi, 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Vertebral artery dissection is extremely rare among the etiologies of acute arterial ischemic stroke in childhood. Most patients diagnosed with stroke secondary to dissection have a history of head and neck trauma. However, most of the time, patients may not give trauma anamnesis. In this article, w...