TY - T1 - Cervicocerebral Artery Dissections : Risk Factors and Clinical Features SN - / UR - URN:ISBN:978-952-10-8524-6; http://hdl.handle.net/10138/37857 T3 - A1 - Metso, Tiina A2 - PB - Helsingin yliopisto Y1 - 2013 LA - en AB - Cervicocerebral artery dissection (CeAD) is one of the leading causes of ischemic stroke in the young and middle-aged adults. The pathophysiology of CeAD is poorly understood. CeAD patients probably have a constitutional, partly genetic weakness of the vessel wall, which predisposes to tears in the connective tissue within the vascular wall in occurrence of environmental triggers of the disease, such as acute infection, migraine, or minor trauma. For this thesis project, we collected a registe... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - medicine N1 - PP - ER -