Spontaneous Bilateral Internal Carotid Artery Dissection Presenting With Right Hemifacial Pain
✍ Scribed by Marco Luigetti; Tommaso Bartalena; Emanuele Pravatà; Alessandro Cianfoni
- Book ID
- 114746993
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 332 KB
- Volume
- 52
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0017-8748
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Spontaneous dissection of the extracranial internal carotid artery (ICA) is increasingly being recognized as a common vascular disease. We report on a 52-year-old-male presented with bilateral extracranial internal artery dissection and twelfth nerve palsy and review the previous literature.
## Abstract Spontaneous bilateral internal carotid artery dissection has frequently been described in the literature as a cause of stroke. In more than half of the patients with internal carotid artery dissection, recanalization occurs early after the event and is unusual later than 6 months after