Surgical management of vertebral artery injuries
Lemenev, V.L.; Mikhaĭlov, I.P.; Iofik, V.V.; Zhulin, D.V.
Vestnik Khirurgii Imeni I. I. Grekova 164(4): 49-53
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4625 PMID: 16755737 Document Number: 585321
The authors describe problems of giving urgent surgical care to patients with wounds of the vertebral arteries in different areas of the neck and propose a simple and reliable method of hemostasis for wounds of the vertebral artery in the bony canal. An analysis of results of the surgical treatment of 16 patients with injured vertebral artery is presented.