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Citation

Patel H, Smith RR, Garg BP. Pediatr. Neurol. 1995; 13(1): 55-60.

Affiliation

Department of Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7575851

Abstract

Dissection of cerebral arteries as a cause of stroke is rarely recognized in children. Two patients with stroke due to extracranial carotid artery dissection are reported. A 7-year-old girl with a 2-week history of right arm chorea had a left basal ganglia infarct and is receiving haloperidol for persistent chorea. The second patient, a 15-year-old boy, developed aphasia and right hemiparesis a day before admission during an American football game without obvious trauma. He had a large left middle cerebral artery infarct and died of cerebral edema and herniation. We believe that strokes due to arterial dissection are more common than currently recognized, partly because of a lack of history of trauma, and suggest that cerebral artery dissection be considered as an etiology of childhood strokes. Greater awareness of arterial dissection as a cause of stroke and availability of noninvasive techniques like magnetic resonance angiography should result in a more accurate diagnosis and improved prognosis in these patients.


Language: en

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