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Villalba Martinez G, Navalpotro Gomez I, Serrano Perez L, Gonzalez Ortiz S, Fernández-Candil JL, Steinhauer EG

Surgical Position, Cause of Extracranial Internal Carotid Artery Dissection, Presenting as Pourfour Du Petit Syndrome: Case Report and Literature Review.

Turk Neurosurg. 2015;25(4):666-9, PMID: 26242349

Dissection of the internal carotid artery is a rare cause of stroke overall, but causes 22% of strokes in younger patients. A common clinical presentation is as Claude Bernard Horner syndrome. We report a craniotomy with 30 degrees rotation of the neck (standard position) in a patient with no major risk factors for carotid dissection, who showed a Pourfour du Petit syndrome due to a dissection of the internal carotid artery. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case in which a common surgical position causes an internal carotid artery dissection in a patient without relevant risk factors. The presentation with Pourfour du Petit syndrome is extremely unusual.

CLINICAL NEUROLOGY

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