title: Post traumatic extracranial vertebral artery dissection with locked-in syndrome: a case with MRI documentation and unusually favourable outcome.
abstract: A patient with a right vertebral artery dissection occurring after minor head trauma progressed to a massive pontine infarction. An unusually favourable outcome and MRI imaging are discussed.
authors: Division of Neurology, Lehigh Valley Hospital Center, Allentown, PA.
authors: A D
authors: AD
authors: Rae-Grant
authors: F
authors: F
authors: Lin
authors: B A
authors: BA
authors: Yaeger
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Barbour
authors: L P
authors: LP
authors: Levitt
authors: J E
authors: JE
authors: Castaldo
authors: M C
authors: MC
authors: Lester
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007238:Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D011149:Pons / Q000098:blood supply*; D011782:Quadriplegia / Q000209:etiology; D014711:Vertebral Artery / Q000473:pathology