Internal carotid artery dissection in a patient with Behçet's syndrome.
The authors report a case of internal carotid artery dissection in a young woman with Behçet's syndrome. The authors postulate that a vasculitis of the vasa vasorum already suspected as the basis of aneurysm formation in course of Behçet's syndrome can account for occurrence of arterial dissection in this inflammatory condition.
Pannone
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Section of Vascular Surgery, Velletri Hospital, Rome, Italy.
Lucchetti
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Stazi
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Corvi
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Ferguson
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Massucci
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Zaccaria
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D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography