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Vertebral artery dissection presenting as acute cerebrovascular accident
Sabrina N Kratz1, Kenneth H Butler
1Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Abstract:
Vertebral artery dissection is a lesser known but significant cause of stroke in young, healthy people. Given its infrequency of presentation, emergency physicians may not always recognize its common symptoms--vertigo, diplopia, ataxia, and dysarthria--as a stroke. In this case report, we describe a patient with vertebral artery dissection presenting with atypical symptoms and discuss the epidemiology, risk factors, presentation, clinical examination findings, imaging modalities, and treatment of this disease.
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