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Manish Amin1, Krishan Chaddha1, Phillip Aguìñiga-Navarrete1
1Kern Medical, Department of Emergency Medicine, Bakersfield, California.
Abstract:
Cranial vascular malformations can cause symptoms of headache, stroke, transient ischemic attack, or other cerebrovascular disorders due to steal phenomenon. Subclavian steal phenomenon is a localized change in cerebral perfusion from a cranial arteriovenous malformation (AVM). We present the only recorded case of a tonsillar AVM causing a transient ischemic attack due to steal phenomenon.
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