Recurrent transient ischemic attacks and stroke in association with an internal carotid artery web.
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- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Stroke
- Vol. 22 (1) , 94-98
Abstract
Fibromuscular dysplasia is a nonatherosclerotic vascular disease that most commonly affects cervical carotid arteries at the C1-C2 level when cephalic arteries are involved. Several histopathologic and angiographic subtypes of fibromuscular dysplasia exist; most have a benign natural history. We describe the third reported case of a pathologically proven, symptomatic proximal internal carotid artery web and suggest that patients with this lesion are at a higher risk for stroke.Keywords
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