A Posterior Circulation Stroke Presenting with Isolated Truncal Ataxia

Vertebral artery dissection is an infrequent and often misdiagnosed cause of stroke. In this case report, we describe a patient with a posterior circulation stroke caused by a vertebral artery dissection, who presented to the emergency department with isolated truncal ataxia. This case emphasizes th...

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Autores principales: Migliaccio, Daniel, Lindquist, Benjamin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Miscellaneous
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5703583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29188153
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1709
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description Vertebral artery dissection is an infrequent and often misdiagnosed cause of stroke. In this case report, we describe a patient with a posterior circulation stroke caused by a vertebral artery dissection, who presented to the emergency department with isolated truncal ataxia. This case emphasizes the importance of obtaining a thorough history and physical exam for all neurologic complaints, including a careful ambulation assessment.
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spelling pubmed-57035832017-11-29 A Posterior Circulation Stroke Presenting with Isolated Truncal Ataxia Migliaccio, Daniel Lindquist, Benjamin Cureus Miscellaneous Vertebral artery dissection is an infrequent and often misdiagnosed cause of stroke. In this case report, we describe a patient with a posterior circulation stroke caused by a vertebral artery dissection, who presented to the emergency department with isolated truncal ataxia. This case emphasizes the importance of obtaining a thorough history and physical exam for all neurologic complaints, including a careful ambulation assessment. Cureus 2017-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5703583/ /pubmed/29188153 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1709 Text en Copyright © 2017, Migliaccio et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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title_full A Posterior Circulation Stroke Presenting with Isolated Truncal Ataxia
title_fullStr A Posterior Circulation Stroke Presenting with Isolated Truncal Ataxia
title_full_unstemmed A Posterior Circulation Stroke Presenting with Isolated Truncal Ataxia
title_short A Posterior Circulation Stroke Presenting with Isolated Truncal Ataxia
title_sort posterior circulation stroke presenting with isolated truncal ataxia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5703583/
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