Acute injury to the internal carotid artery (carotid dissection, occlusion, pseudoaneurysm formation) may be asymptomatic or ... Other race car drivers like Stanley Smith and Rick Carelli also survived a basilar skull fracture. To prevent basilar skull ... A basilar skull fracture is a break of a bone in the base of the skull. Symptoms may include bruising behind the ears, bruising ... A basilar skull fracture typically requires a significant degree of trauma to occur. It is defined as a fracture of one or more ...

In persons younger than 45 years, there is an association between chiropractic care and vertebro-basilar artery (VBA) stroke; ... Matsuura JH, Rosenthal D, Jerius H, Clark MD, Owens DS (1997). "Traumatic Carotid Artery Dissection and Pseudoaneurysm Treated ... Carotid artery dissection is a separation of the layers of the artery wall supplying oxygen-bearing blood to the head and brain ... The incidence of spontaneous carotid artery dissection is low, and incidence rates for internal carotid artery dissection have ...

... basilar artery, vertebral arteries and posterior communicating artery) have a higher risk of rupture. Basilar artery aneurysms ... Interventional neuroradiology Intradural pseudoaneurysm "Brain aneurysm - Symptoms and causes". Mayo Clinic. "What is an ... communicating artery Posterior communicating artery Middle cerebral artery Internal carotid artery Tip of basilar artery ... In the case of broad-based aneurysms, a stent may be passed first into the parent artery to serve as a scaffold for the coils. ...