Basilar artery dolichoectasia in childhood: evidence of vascular compromise.
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.
Forrest
Katharine M
KM
Department of Paediatric Neurology, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK.
Siddiqui
Ata
A
Lim
Ming
M
Wraige
Elizabeth
E
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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