title: Dissection of the internal carotid artery after SCUBA-diving: a case report and review of the literature.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Dissections of the internal carotid arteries are a well known complication of cervical trauma. Neurologic symptoms in patients after SCUBA-diving are often associated with gas embolism or decompression illness.
  
  
  METHODS
  This report presents a rare case of carotid artery dissection immediately after SCUBA-diving in a 37-year-old woman, with left-side facial paresthesias and left-cervical pain as the first symptoms after SCUBA-diving without rapid ascent to the water-surface.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A review of the literature focuses on symptoms, morphologic aspects, and therapeutic options in reported cases of cervical artery dissection after SCUBA-diving.
authors.affiliation: Division of Angiology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria. franz.hafner@meduni-graz.at
authors.forename: Franz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hafner
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gary
authors.forename: Froehlich
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Harald
authors.forename: Ernst
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pilger
authors.forename: Reinhard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Groell
authors.forename: Marianne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brodmann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D020215:Carotid Artery, Internal, Dissection / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D004242:Diving / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography
chemical_list: D000925:Anticoagulants