title: Basilar artery dolichoectasia in childhood: evidence of vascular compromise.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Dolichoectasia describes the elongation, dilatation and tortuosity of an arterial vessel. In adults, clinical presentation of basilar dolichoectasia (BD) is most often with ischaemic stroke. True BD has been very rarely reported in childhood, but the implication is of a congenital susceptibility.
  
  
  METHODS
  We describe two cases of infants with BD complicated by brainstem ischaemia.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This first description of childhood BD associated with ischaemic infarction adds to the understanding of this rarely reported arteriopathy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatric Neurology, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK.
authors.forename: Katharine M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Forrest
authors.forename: Ata
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Siddiqui
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wraige
mesh_terms: D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D014715:Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*
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