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Wasp sting-associated cerebral infarction: a role for cerebrovascular sympathetic innervation
J E Riggs1, L M Ketonen, J B Bodensteiner
1Department of Neurology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown.
Clinical Neuropharmacology
|August 1, 1993
Abstract:
A 38-year-old man, stung repeatedly by wasps on the left face and neck, had his left internal carotid artery occluded 2 days later. A mechanism for ischemic stroke involving the sympathetic innervation of cerebral vasculature is suggested.