Dissection (medical)

Dissection (medical)
ICD-9	441.0, 443.2

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

A dissection is a tear in the wall of a blood vessel.

Classification

Examples include:

• Coronary artery dissection
• Aortic dissection (aorta)
• Carotid artery dissection (carotid artery)
• Vertebral artery dissection (vertebral artery)

Carotid and vertebral artery dissection are grouped together as "cervical artery dissection".