Free methylated DNA in association of clinical signs and circulating blood tumor cells in patients with breast cancer. Background: The incidence and outcome of supraclavicular lymph node metastasis ...

In patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), key clinical features were associated with the risk for concomitant cervical artery dissection in a retrospective observational ...

Compared with patients with migraine and other transient neurological events, those with an ischemic stroke have almost double the risk for myocardial infarction (MI) within a year, while those with ...

TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech ...

A neck dissection is surgery to remove all or some of the lymph nodes and surrounding tissue from the neck. Lymph nodes are small, round or bean-shaped glands. They remove germs from your body, help ...

Cervical artery dissection is a tear in an artery in the neck that provides blood flow to the brain. Such a tear can result in blood clots that cause stroke. A new study has found almost a five-fold ...

Antiplatelet or anticoagulant treatment performed equally well in preventing strokes in cervical artery dissection patients at 1 year, final results of the open-label CADISS clinical trial showed. The ...

Cervical artery dissections are defined by the presence of a mural hematoma in the arterial wall. Most occur in the internal carotid artery more than 2 cm after the bifurcation, although they can also ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - - Blood vessel tears that lead to strokes may be associated with – but not necessarily caused by – treatments involving neck manipulations, researchers say. The blood ...

Various conditions can lead to carotid artery neck pain. For instance, some people experience carotidynia, which is inflammation of the blood vessels. Carotid artery dissection can also cause pain in ...