title: Vascular compression from goiter as an unusual cause of cerebrovascular accident.
abstract: The unusual case of a patient with goiter and left faciobrachiocrural paresis due to right temporoparietal infarction is reported. Cerebral angioscintigram and arteriography showed a brachiocephalic and right subclavian stenosis secondary to compression by an extended thyroid nodule.
authors.affiliation: Clinica Neurologica I, Università di Messina.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Silvestri
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: De Domenico
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Raffaele
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lombardo
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Casella
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Gugliotta
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meduri
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D005260:Female; D006042:Goiter / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D011187:Posture; D011875:Radionuclide Angiography; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging