title: [Love bite on the neck resulted in an embolic stroke].
abstract: A 35-year-old woman experienced sudden onset of right-sided weakness due to a left middle cerebral artery stroke 12 hours after she had obtained a love bite on the left side of her neck. Duplex ultrasonography showed a near-occlusion of the left internal carotid artery (ICA) and CT angiography revealed a mural thrombus at the same location. This case report shows that love bites on the neck are a rare cause of embolic stroke. The most likely aetiology is embolization of thrombus material from a local intimal lesion of the ICA.
authors.affiliation: Medisinsk Klinikk, Nordlandssykehuset Bod ø, Prinsens gate 164, 8005 Bod ø, Norge. sequssuna@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Sequssuna
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Olsen
authors.forename: Lydia Royen
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Damhave
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kondziella
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wojtek
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001734:Bites, Human / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D000072226:Computed Tomography Angiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020521:Stroke / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D018616:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Duplex