Erschienen in:
01.10.2012 | Letter
Posttraumatic Basilar Artery Herniation Associated with Dissecting Aneurysm Formation: Follow-up Over 20 Months
verfasst von:
Jingqin Fang, Lianqin Kuang, Jinhua Chen, Yi Wang, Rong Chen, Kunlin Xiong, Weiguo Zhang
Erschienen in:
CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology
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Ausgabe 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]. …