Citation

Lipschutz JH, Pascuzzi RM, Bognanno J, Putty T. Stroke 1991; 22(6): 813-815.

Affiliation

Department of Internal Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, American Heart Association, Publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2057983

Abstract

A 43-year-old woman suffered a blast-type injury to the head and neck. She subsequently developed bilateral internal carotid artery occlusion and bilateral anterior cerebral artery infarction not demonstrated by magnetic resonance imaging scan 24 hours after the explosion, but confirmed by a second scan 8 days after the explosion. In patients with blast-type injury to the head and neck who develop coma with a nonfocal neurological exam, the possibility of bilateral carotid artery occlusion and bilateral ischemic infarction should be considered.

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