The vertebral artery supplies the part of the brain that lies in the apparently sunken eye on one side of the face.
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He retired in December 2015, aged just 26, on medical advice after he suffered a vertebral artery dissection earlier in the year.
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Hughes died two days later at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, as a result of a vertebral artery dissection, leading to subarachnoid haemorrhage.
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Magistral vessels include carotid arties, vertebral arteries, jugular vein etc . Magistral vessels show little branching and in consequence have a consistent diameter.
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Vertebral artery dissection is less common than carotid artery dissection ( dissection of the large arteries in the front of the neck ).
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It is a bony " bridge " found on the first cervical vertebra, the atlas where it covers the groove for the vertebral artery.
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Dissecting aneurysms of the vertebral artery constitute 4 % of all cerebral aneurysms, and are hence a relatively rare but important cause of subarachnoid hemorrhage.
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The ball struck Hughes on the base of the skull just behind his left ear which caused a vertebral artery dissection complicated by subarachnoid hemorrhage.
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Only nine days before Jacobs'injury, a high-school football player in Little Rock, Ark ., died when both of the vertebral arteries in his neck dissected.
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The jolt pinched the right vertebral artery in the back of Jacobs'neck, damaging the lining of the artery and restricting blood flow to his brain.
