Penetrating wounds of vertebral arteries: literature review

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Penetrating wounds of the vertebral artery is an extremely rare pathology; its weight is not large even among the damages of the cervical vessels. This life-threatening state due to its rarity is not always diagnosed in time, and in case of a timely diagnostics, it is a complicated task for a surgeon. The paper presents the data regarding prevalence of penetrating damages of the vertebral arteries, anatomy and development of these vessels, methods of diagnostics and treatment of these wounds as well as complications and outcomes.

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Ilya A. Karasov

E.A. Vagner Perm State Medical University

Email: samarcev-v@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9256-8709

resident

Russian Federation, Perm

Arthur A. Antonyan

National Medical Research Center for Oncology

Email: samarcev-v@mail.ru

resident

Russian Federation, Rostov-on-Don

Vladimir A. Samartsev

E.A. Vagner Perm State Medical University

Email: samarcev-v@mail.ru

MD, PhD, Professor, Head of Department of General Surgery №1

Russian Federation, Perm

Andrey Yu. Oparin

City Clinical Hospital №4

Email: samarcev-v@mail.ru

cardiovascular surgeon, Head of Cardiovascular Surgery Unit

Russian Federation, Perm

E. V. Kruglov

City Clinical Hospital №4

Author for correspondence.
Email: samarcev-v@mail.ru

cardiovascular surgeon

Russian Federation, Perm

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