Intrapetrous internal carotid artery dissection and essential thrombocythemia: what relationship? A case report

Internal carotid artery (ICA) dissection is responsible for 10–20% of strokes in young and middle-aged patients. Isolated ICA dissection involving the intrapetrous carotid canal is particularly rare, and no case has been reported to describe an association between intrapetrous ICA dissection and ess...

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Autores principales: D'Ambrosio, Daniele, Della-Morte, David, Gargiulo, Gaetano, Rossetti, Marianna, Rundek, Tatjana, Rengo, Franco, Abete, Pasquale
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2607259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19038034
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-354
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Sumario:Internal carotid artery (ICA) dissection is responsible for 10–20% of strokes in young and middle-aged patients. Isolated ICA dissection involving the intrapetrous carotid canal is particularly rare, and no case has been reported to describe an association between intrapetrous ICA dissection and essential thrombocythemia. We report a case of ischemic stroke in the presence of intrapetrous right ICA dissection and essential thrombocythemia. The diagnosis of essential thrombocythemia was performed by bone marrow biopsy. The essential thrombocythemia may cause endothelial dysfunction and predispose to vascular damage such as carotid artery dissection.

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