Collet-Sicard syndrome caused by a coiling of the internal carotid artery.
A Collet-Sicard syndrome was observed in a 53-year-old patient with a coiling of the left internal carotid artery just below the skull base. Although impairment of cranial nerves by tortuous vessel compression has frequently been reported, a combined palsy of the last four cranial nerves related to such a mechanism has never been described before.
Silvestrini
M
M
Clinica Neurologica, II Università degli Studi di Roma.
Floris
R
R
Tagliati
M
M
Stanzione
P
P
Simonetti
G
G
D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D003389:Cranial Nerve Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009408:Nerve Compression Syndromes / Q000209:etiology*; D011859:Radiography