Symptomatic Internal Carotid Agenesis in Children

Carotid artery agenesis is a rare congenital anomaly, and there are controversies in the leading cause for it. We present a 6-year-old girl with resolved focal neurological ischemic stroke that showed bilateral internal carotid artery (ICA) agenesis. Through this paper, we highlight the carotid cana...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Alhaizaey, Abdullah, Alhelali, Ibrahim, Alghamdi, Musaed, Azazy, Ahmed, Samir, Mohammed A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7196992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32373380
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/3290460
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Sumario:Carotid artery agenesis is a rare congenital anomaly, and there are controversies in the leading cause for it. We present a 6-year-old girl with resolved focal neurological ischemic stroke that showed bilateral internal carotid artery (ICA) agenesis. Through this paper, we highlight the carotid canal congenital obliteration hypothesis as it may be a risk for such finding.

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