Spontaneous Intracranial Artery Dissection causing Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Importance of Short-Term Surveillance.

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Division of Interventional Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Baylor University Medical Center, Gaston Avenue, Dallas, TX, USA.

Published: October 2021

Hemorrhagic intracranial artery dissections are unstable lesions, with a high propensity for rebleeding (up to 40%) in the acute period. Imaging plays an important role in the diagnosis and management of intracranial artery dissections. In this paper, we describe 2 cases in which the dissected intracranial artery underwent rapid morphological change within 3 days or less, highlighting the importance of short-term follow-up imaging in patients with these hemorrhagic lesions.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8442160PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/19418744211007033DOI Listing

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