Vertebral artery dissection – clinical aspects

Abstract

We report the cases of four patients under age of 55 years hospitalized in the Neurology Clinic of the Emergency University Hospital, Bucharest, for occipital headache, vertigo, nausea and vomiting, symptomatology installed after neck injury. Cerebral MRI revealed ischemic stroke in the posterior circulation due to an important dissection of a vertebral artery underlying the importance of this pathology as a cause of ischemic stroke in young patients.

Keywords

• dissection
• vertebral artery
• cerebral mri