Mobile plaque in the internal carotid artery: A case report and review

A mobile plaque in the carotid artery is an uncommon entity, usually detected incidentally on a carotid duplex scan or angiography. It is associated with an indeterminate risk of an embolic stroke and should be managed on an emergent basis. We report here a case of a mobile plaque in the internal ca...

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Autores principales: Khurana, Dheeraj, Saini, Monica, Laldinpuii, Judy, Khandelwal, N., Prabhakar, S.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2824937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20174501
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.56320
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author Khurana, Dheeraj
Saini, Monica
Laldinpuii, Judy
Khandelwal, N.
Prabhakar, S.
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Saini, Monica
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description A mobile plaque in the carotid artery is an uncommon entity, usually detected incidentally on a carotid duplex scan or angiography. It is associated with an indeterminate risk of an embolic stroke and should be managed on an emergent basis. We report here a case of a mobile plaque in the internal carotid artery that was detected serendipitously in a carotid duplex scan.
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spelling pubmed-28249372010-02-21 Mobile plaque in the internal carotid artery: A case report and review Khurana, Dheeraj Saini, Monica Laldinpuii, Judy Khandelwal, N. Prabhakar, S. Ann Indian Acad Neurol Case Report A mobile plaque in the carotid artery is an uncommon entity, usually detected incidentally on a carotid duplex scan or angiography. It is associated with an indeterminate risk of an embolic stroke and should be managed on an emergent basis. We report here a case of a mobile plaque in the internal carotid artery that was detected serendipitously in a carotid duplex scan. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2824937/ /pubmed/20174501 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.56320 Text en © Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Khurana, Dheeraj
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Laldinpuii, Judy
Khandelwal, N.
Prabhakar, S.
Mobile plaque in the internal carotid artery: A case report and review
title Mobile plaque in the internal carotid artery: A case report and review
title_full Mobile plaque in the internal carotid artery: A case report and review
title_fullStr Mobile plaque in the internal carotid artery: A case report and review
title_full_unstemmed Mobile plaque in the internal carotid artery: A case report and review
title_short Mobile plaque in the internal carotid artery: A case report and review
title_sort mobile plaque in the internal carotid artery: a case report and review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2824937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20174501
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