Talk:Carotid artery dissection

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diagnosis?

Would be good to have a section on diagnosis (tests, how often in emergency, how often chronic, etc.)TCO (talk) 18:04, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Intracranial dissection

... by basically everyone who has some authority on the subject: doi:10.1016/S1474-4422(15)00009-5 JFW | T@lk 14:23, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Changes to the opening lang.

I took a fair amount of effort to make the opening language useful and targeted to a layperson.

The prior language was a direct copy from the cite. I'm not sure I'd call a delam a blister - an ICard would not use this language when explaining to a patient -

Dr. BeingObjective (talk) 21:09, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Made changes to this article for clarity - removed/replaced the dated citations. Looped in cervical blood supply and clarified this is not unique to the carotid system. Defined the carotid blood vessels - strived to add clarity and ensure this is understandable to the average reader.

Dr. BeingObjective (talk) 22:48, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]