TY - JOUR PY - 2008// TI - Vertebral artery rupture in a sudden death case after mild trauma JO - American journal of forensic medicine and pathology A1 - Ikegaya, Hiroshi A1 - Yajima, Daisuke A1 - Iwase, Hirotaro SP - 276 EP - 278 VL - 29 IS - 3 N2 - We report a case of subarachnoid hemorrhage at the skull base with possible rupture of a vertebral artery, and we present a new method to investigate rupture of this artery. In this method, the brain stem and cerebrum are divided with ligation of the internal carotid artery and basilar artery, and milk is injected from the original part of the vessel to find the rupture. We show that this method is particularly useful for cases of subarachnoid hemorrhage at the skull base in which there may be rupture of a vertebral artery.
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LA - en SN - 0195-7910 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PAF.0b013e318174f0e2 ID - ref1 ER -