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Spontaneous intracranial internal carotid artery dissection in a child with psoriasis
Young Ok Kim, Young Jun Son, Young Jong Woo, Sook Jung Yun
Clin Exp Pediatr. 2009;52(9):1044-1047.   Published online September 15, 2009
A 13-year-old girl with psoriasis of the elbow, trunk, and face suddenly developed a severe headache followed by left hemiparesis and facial palsy. Brain magnetic resonance imaging showed an acute infarction of the right temporofrontal lobe and basal ganglia on the T2- and diffusion-weighted images. Cerebral angiography showed pre-occlusive irregular scalloped stenosis (99%) in the proximal M1 segment of the...
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