Intracranial dissection is an important cause of stroke often with nonspecific angiographic features. Vessel wall imaging (VWI) can detect dissections, but intracranial applications remain unvalidated by pathologic specimens. We sought to determine the ability of VWI to identify the rarely reported spontaneous intracranial carotid dissection (sICD) guided by postmortem validation.
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