Internal carotid dissection after the motorcycle accidents

Dear Editor, Extracranial carotid artery dissection (CAD) is one of the major consequences of blunt head and neck trauma, and a main etiology of ischemic stroke in young adults; the carotid lesions are described in accidents of motorcycle drivers with or without the helmet [1-5]. Blunt cervical vascular injury is a nonpenetrating trauma to the carotid or vertebral arteries caused either by direct neck injury or by the shearing of these cervical vessels; the estimated incidence of vascular lesions is low, only near 1% of the blunt trauma.