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Locked-in syndrome caused by basilar artery ectasia
Hussain Al-Sardar1, Wolf Grabau
1Department of Medicine, James Paget Hospital, Great Yarmouth NR31 6LA, UK. halsardar@hotmail.com
Age and Ageing
|November 26, 2002
Abstract:
Despite various presentations of vertebrobasilar artery ectasia, the true incidence and its distribution and the frequency with which it produces symptoms are still uncertain. We report on a case of Locked-in syndrome caused by an ectatic elongated basilar artery, which predisposed to thrombosis and brain stem infarction.