Disección cervical: a propósito de un caso / Dissection of the vertebral artery: a case report
Rev. neuro-psiquiatr. (Impr.)
;
79(4): 272-276, oct.-dic. 2016. ilus
Article
in Spanish
| LILACS, LIPECS
| ID: biblio-836267
RESUMEN
La disección cervical es una entidad poco estudiada y diagnosticada como variante de infarto cerebral, sobretodo en el adulto joven; es, sin embargo, relativamente frecuente y debe formar parte del diagnóstico diferencialen pacientes jóvenes con infarto cerebral de mecanismo embólico. Se presenta el caso clínico de una paciente coninfarto cerebral en diferentes territorios vasculares varios estudios de ayuda diagnóstica resultaron en la detecciónde compromiso de la arteria vertebral izquierda por disección arterial, mediante protocolos especiales de resonanciamagnética cervical.
ABSTRACT
Cervical dissection is a poorly studied and diagnosed entity, a variant of cerebral infarction particularly foundamong young adults. It is, however, relatively frequent and should be suspected as a differential diagnosis in young patients with history of an embolic stroke. The clinical case of a patient with cerebral infarction of different vascular territories is presented various diagnostic studies resulted in the detection of involvement of the left vertebral artery by arterial dissection, by special protocols of cervical magnetic resonance.
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LILACS (Americas)
Main subject:
Cerebral Infarction
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Vertebral Artery Dissection
Type of study:
Practice guideline
Limits:
Female
/
Humans
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Rev. neuro-psiquiatr. (Impr.)
Year:
2016
Type:
Article
Institution/Affiliation country:
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas/PE
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