Cerebrovascular circulation "steal" syndrome secondary to a voluminous retrotracheal goiter.
A case of recurrent transient ischaemic attacks in the brain resolved after removal of a voluminous retrotracheal goiter is presented. The presence of congenital atretic left vertebral artery, associated with impairment of left carotid artery blood flow by a very large inferior thyroid artery, probably caused the episodes to transient ischaemic attack.
D001921:Brain / Q000098:blood supply; D005260:Female; D006045:Goiter, Substernal / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D002546:Ischemic Attack, Transient / Q000209:etiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence