Flows through the common carotid and vertebral arteries were measured with the square-wave electromagnetic flowmeter before, during and after partial or complete occlusion, ...

To date, the Carotid and Vertebral Artery Transluminal Angioplasty Study (CAVATAS) 3 is the only prospective randomized study comparing best medical therapy with endovascular stenting for patients ...

Angiographic evidence of injury to the vertebral artery is nearly always at the C1-2 level. The carotid artery, lying freely in the soft tissues of the neck, is more mobile and less vulnerable but is ...

Besides the well-publicized carotid arteries, there are two lesser-known vertebral arteries, each of which branches off from one of the subclavian arteries in the shoulders and ascends to the ...

Known collectively as the cervical arteries, the carotid arteries supply blood to the front of the brain and the vertebral arteries supply the back.