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Traumatic dissection of the internal carotid artery as unusual cause of hypoglossal nerve dysfunction
M Lemmerling1, L Crevits, L Defreyne
1Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
|February 1, 1996
Abstract:
A dissection of the internal carotid artery (ICA) in a 50-year-old man with hypoglossal nerve dysfunction is reported. This case illustrates how non-invasive imaging techniques, such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance angiography, can demonstrate this unusual etiology.