title: Triple spontaneous cervical artery dissection.
abstract: A 39-year-old healthy man had several transient ischaemic attacks suggesting left internal carotid artery (ICA) occlusion. There were no vascular risk factors and no preceding trauma. Colour-coded duplex sonography suggested a pseudo-occlusion of the left ICA, and cerebral angiography demonstrated dissection of the left ICA and both vertebral arteries. Angiography 6 months later was completely normal. This underlines the importance of four vessel angiography in young patients with dissections of cervical arteries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany. gilbertw@neurologie.uni-duesseldorf.de
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wunderlich
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Neumann-Haefelin
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aulich
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Steinmetz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D020215:Carotid Artery, Internal, Dissection / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male