Pulsatile tinnitus: a symptom of chronic subclavian artery occlusion.
We report the unusual case of pulsatile tinnitus caused by muscular branches of the occipital artery, which developed to supply the distal vertebral artery after subclavian artery occlusion. Anatomical findings and options of endovascular treatment are discussed. To our knowledge, subclavian artery occlusion causing an objective tinnitus has not been reported.
Lehmann
Márcio Francisco
MF
Service de Neuroradiologie Interventionnelle, Hôpital de la Fondation Rothschild, Paris, France.
Mounayer
Charbel
C
Benndorf
Goetz
G
Piotin
Michel
M
Moret
Jacques
J
D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015607:Stents; D013348:Subclavian Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013349:Subclavian Steal Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy; D014012:Tinnitus / Q000209:etiology*