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01-10-2012 | Letter

Posttraumatic Basilar Artery Herniation Associated with Dissecting Aneurysm Formation: Follow-up Over 20 Months

Authors: Jingqin Fang, Lianqin Kuang, Jinhua Chen, Yi Wang, Rong Chen, Kunlin Xiong, Weiguo Zhang

Published in: CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology | Issue 5/2012

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The fracture in the clivus of occipital bone, which might be longitudinal, transverse, or oblique, accounts for 0.36–0.57% of traumatic brain injuries found by computed tomography (CT) [1, 2]. Among these, the longitudinal clivus fracture has the highest mortality rate as a result of the direct injury of brain stem and vertebrobasilar artery [1‐3]. Longitudinal clival fracture with the incarceration of vertebrobasilar artery at the fracture site is unusual. Only 15 cases had been reported previously [3, 4‐15], and 10 patients died [3, 4, 6‐11]. …

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Title: Posttraumatic Basilar Artery Herniation Associated with Dissecting Aneurysm Formation: Follow-up Over 20 Months
Authors: Jingqin Fang
Lianqin Kuang
Jinhua Chen
Yi Wang
Rong Chen
Kunlin Xiong
Weiguo Zhang
Publication date: 01-10-2012
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology / Issue 5/2012
Print ISSN: 0174-1551
Electronic ISSN: 1432-086X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-012-0353-9

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