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Bilateral spontaneous dissection of the internal carotid arteries
Author(s) -
Spalloni A.,
Ferrari M.,
Beccia M.,
Bracalello A.,
Rasura M.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
european journal of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.881
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1468-1331
pISSN - 1351-5101
DOI - 10.1046/j.1351-5101.2003.00720.x
Subject(s) - medicine
Spontaneous dissections of the carotid or vertebral artery are an important cause of ischemic stroke in young and middleaged patients, accounting for 10–25% of such cases (Schievink, 2001).Between 9 and 21% of carotid dissectionsare bilateral (Zetterling et al., 2000)and the involvement of more than one artery suggests the presence of a transient arteriopathy. Current histological and biochemical data do not suggest only one form of disease, but rather various extracellularmatrix abnormalities which may involve one of the fibrillar components ortheir enzymatic regulation