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Carotid artery dissection (MRI)

This axial, fat-saturated, T1-weighted MRI image shows the “crescent” sign of carotid artery dissection (arrow). (Contributed by Dr. Aneesh Singhal.)

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  • Behçet disease
  • CARASIL (Maeda disease)
  • Call syndrome
  • Call-Fleming syndrome
  • Carotid and vertebral artery dissection
  • Churg-Strauss syndrome
  • Dolichoectasia
  • Drug-induced vasospasm
  • Eales retinopathy
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type IV
  • Fabry disease
  • Hereditary endotheliopathy with retinopathy, nephropathy, and stroke (HERNS)
  • Horner syndrome
  • Infections of the central nervous system
  • Kohlmeier-Degos disease
  • Marfan syndrome
  • Migrainous vasospasm
  • Osteogenesis imperfecta type I
  • Periarteritis nodosa
  • Postpartum angiopathy
  • Primary angiitis of the CNS
  • Rheumatological diseases
  • Sickle-cell disease
  • Susac syndrome
  • Systemic arteriopathies
  • Takayasu arteritis
  • Temporal arteritis
  • Wegener granulomatosis