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Brain 2009 132(4):827-830; doi:10.1093/brain/awp066
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The cervical portion of the vertebral artery: a clinico-pathological study, by E. C. Hutchinson and P. O. Yates (From the Department of Neurology and Neuro-pathology, the Manchester Royal Infirmary) Brain 1956: 79; 319–331 and Arterial occlusions in the vertebro-basilar system: a study of 44 patients with post-mortem data, by P. Castaigne, F. Lhermitte, J. C. Gautier, R. Escourolle, C. Derouesné, P. Der Agopian and C. Popa (From Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 47 Bd de l’Hôpital, Paris, 13), Brain 1973: 96; 133–154.

Alastair Compston

Cambridge

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Just as neurologists were slow to appreciate the significance of atheroma in the cervical portion of the carotid artery for the development of vascular disease in the head so, too, the anatomical status of the vertebral artery in the neck has been neglected in the context of stroke. But now that the role of internal carotid artery occlusion in cerebral infarction is better recognized, and given the importance of collaterals between the anterior and posterior circulations, it is important to consider the condition of the cervical portion of the vertebral artery. Drs Hutchinson and Yates report clinical and pathological findings in 48 patients who died from various cerebrovascular lesions and in whom the carotid and vertebral arteries were injected post-mortem with gelatine soaked in radio-opaque dyes to allow radiological depiction and subsequent dissection. Their focus is on the state of the vertebral artery within the cervical canal. As their former . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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