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Published on: January 23, 2019
Focal common carotid artery intramural hematoma
Aurélien Viaccoz1, Fabienne Perren
1Division of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University Hospital and Medical Faculty of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Background And Purpose:
Isolated focal common carotid artery dissection is a rare condition.
Case Report:
A 43-year-old healthy woman suffered for the first time from a transient episode of word-finding difficulties, which was associated with her typical migraine headaches. A month prior to this event she had suffered from a minor whiplash injury. On routine work-up we found an isolated focal left common carotid mural hematoma and tiny acute left posterior watershed lesions on diffusion weighted images.
Conclusion:
Focal isolated common carotid artery dissection is a rare condition not to be overlooked. This case presents an incidental finding possibly of traumatic nature. In the presence of concomitant migraine its causal embolic relation to the transient word-finding difficulties must remain open.
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