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Lateral Medullary Syndrome Due to a Hypoplastic Vertebral Artery

Vertebral artery hypoplasia is an uncommon congenital anatomical variation. Currently, no standard criteria exist for evaluating vertebral arteries as being hypoplastic based on vessel luminal diameter or volume flow. There is debate on the clinical significance of these variants and their relevance...

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Autores principales: Chung, Albert M, Sovory, Lisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9580038/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36276599
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30463
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description Vertebral artery hypoplasia is an uncommon congenital anatomical variation. Currently, no standard criteria exist for evaluating vertebral arteries as being hypoplastic based on vessel luminal diameter or volume flow. There is debate on the clinical significance of these variants and their relevance as an independent risk factor for posterior circulation strokes. We report a case of a 59-year-old male presenting with lateral medullary syndrome in the setting of a left hypoplastic vertebral artery with absence of atherosclerotic or thrombotic involvement.
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spelling pubmed-95800382022-10-21 Lateral Medullary Syndrome Due to a Hypoplastic Vertebral Artery Chung, Albert M Sovory, Lisa Cureus Neurology Vertebral artery hypoplasia is an uncommon congenital anatomical variation. Currently, no standard criteria exist for evaluating vertebral arteries as being hypoplastic based on vessel luminal diameter or volume flow. There is debate on the clinical significance of these variants and their relevance as an independent risk factor for posterior circulation strokes. We report a case of a 59-year-old male presenting with lateral medullary syndrome in the setting of a left hypoplastic vertebral artery with absence of atherosclerotic or thrombotic involvement. Cureus 2022-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9580038/ /pubmed/36276599 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30463 Text en Copyright © 2022, Chung et al. https://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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Chung, Albert M
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title Lateral Medullary Syndrome Due to a Hypoplastic Vertebral Artery
title_full Lateral Medullary Syndrome Due to a Hypoplastic Vertebral Artery
title_fullStr Lateral Medullary Syndrome Due to a Hypoplastic Vertebral Artery
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title_short Lateral Medullary Syndrome Due to a Hypoplastic Vertebral Artery
title_sort lateral medullary syndrome due to a hypoplastic vertebral artery
topic Neurology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9580038/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36276599
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30463
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