Dissection (medical) This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Dissection_(medical)".
In medical pathology, dissection (or dissecting aneurysm) refers to a tear within the wall of a blood vessels, which allows blood to separate the wall layers, creating a pseudoaneurysm.
Examples include:
Carotid and vertebral artery dissection are grouped together as "cervical artery dissection".
Stenosis (Renal artery stenosis, Carotid artery stenosis) - Fibromuscular dysplasia - Degos disease - Aortoiliac occlusive disease
Arteriovenous fistula - Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
abdomen (May-Thurner syndrome, Portal vein thrombosis, Budd-Chiari syndrome, Renal vein thrombosis)
upper limb/torso (Paget-Schroetter disease, Mondor's disease)
head (Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis)
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