Unilateral Hypoplasia of the Internal Carotid Artery
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Case Reports - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 5
Abstract
Hypoplasia of the internal carotid artery (ICA) is a rare congenital anomaly. Most of the patients are asymptomatic. When clinically symptomatic it presents as cerebral ischemia or hemorrhage. Carotid artery hypoplasia should not be confused with other conditions which may have a similar appearance such as arterial dissection, atherosclerosis, vasculitis and tubular fibromuscular hyperplasia. Hypoplasia of the ICA is usually discovered incidentally by computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. We report three cases of ICA hypoplasia which were discovered incidentally on computed tomography angiography (CTA). One of the three patients described an ipsilateral amaurosis fugax associated with the hypoplasia of the right internal carotid artery.
Authors and Affiliations
Lale Paşaoğlu, Uğur Toprak, Betul Akdal, Gokhan Yagiz, Dilek Acar, Fatih Gurel
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- DOI 10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/16686
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