Dissection (medical)

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Dissection (medical) Classification and external resources
ICD-9	441.0, 443.2
MeSH	D000784

In medical pathology, dissection (or dissecting aneurysm) refers to a tear in the wall of a blood vessel.

[edit] Types

Examples include:

• 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".

v • d • e Cardiovascular disease: vascular disease - Circulatory system pathology (I60-I99, 430-459) Cerebrovascular diseases Intracranial hemorrhage: Extra-axial (Epidural, Subdural, Subarachnoid) - Cerebral/Intra-axial (Intraventricular, Intraparenchymal) Stroke/Brain ischemia: Vertebrobasilar insufficiency (Subclavian steal syndrome) - TIA Carotid artery stenosis - Cerebral aneurysm - Binswanger's disease - Moyamoya disease Anterior spinal artery syndrome Arteries, arterioles and capillaries Arterial occlusive disease: Arteriosclerosis (Atherosclerosis, Intermittent claudication, Atheroma) - Renal artery stenosis - Fibromuscular dysplasia - Degos disease Peripheral vascular disease: Raynaud's phenomenon/Raynaud's disease - Erythromelalgia Aneurysm (Aortic/Abdominal aortic) - Dissection (Aortic, Carotid, Vertebral) - Pseudoaneurysm Arteritis (Aortitis) - Buerger's disease Arteriovenous fistula - Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia Nevus (Spider angioma) Veins Venous thrombosis/Phlebitis/Thrombophlebitis: Deep vein thrombosis - May-Thurner syndrome - Portal vein thrombosis - Budd-Chiari syndrome - Renal vein thrombosis - Paget-Schroetter disease - Post-thrombotic syndrome Varicose veins: Varicocele - Gastric varices - Portacaval anastomosis (Hemorrhoid, Esophageal varices, Caput medusae) Superior vena cava syndrome - Venous ulcer Arteries or veins Vasculitis - Thrombosis - Embolism (Pulmonary embolism, Cholesterol embolism) Lymphatic vessels/nodes Lymphadenitis - Lymphedema - Lymphangitis Blood pressure Hypertension: Hypertensive heart disease - Hypertensive nephropathy - Secondary hypertension (Renovascular hypertension) Hypotension: Orthostatic hypotension See also congenital (Q20-Q28, 745-747)