Clinical manifestations of vertebral artery dissection.

@article{Arnold2005ClinicalMO,
  title={Clinical manifestations of vertebral artery dissection.},
  author={Marcel Arnold and Marie Germaine Bousser},
  journal={Frontiers of neurology and neuroscience},
  year={2005},
  volume={20},
  pages={
          77-86
        }
}
The most frequent clinical manifestation of vertebral artery dissection is posterior headache or neck pain accompanied or followed by posterior circulation transient ischemic attack or stroke. Rarer clinical features include isolated headache or neck pain, cervical spinal cord ischemia and cervical root impairment. Asymptomatic vertebral artery dissections have been reported. In the case of primary intracranial vertebral artery dissection or intracranial extension of an extracranial dissection… 
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