Basilar artery dolichoectasia in childhood: evidence of vascular compromise
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Katharine M. Forrest & Ata Siddiqui &Ming Lim & Elizabeth Wraige
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2010
Description
Introduction Dolichoectasia describes the elongation, dilatation and tortuosity of an arterial vessel. In adults, clinical presentation of basilar dolichoectasia (BD) is most often with ischaemic stroke. True BD has been very rarely reported in childhood, but the implication is of a congenital susceptibility. Case report We describe two cases of infants with BD complicated by brainstem ischaemia. Discussion This first description of childhood BD associated with ischaemic infarction adds to the understanding of this rarely reported arteriopathy
Childs Nerv Syst (2011) 27:193–196 DOI 10.1007/s00381-010-1267-y Received: 12 July 2010 / Accepted: 3 August 2010 / Published online: 28 August 2010
