Lower cranial nerve palsias in the internal carotid artery dissection

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We describe a 53 year old patient with the left internal carotid artery (ICA) dissection, which developed after the resection of tortuous part of ICA. The first clinical manifestations of dissection were the left lower cranial nerve palsies (dysphagia, dysphonia, disorder of tongue movement), in two days left frontotemporal headache appeared and in two weeks patient developed ischemic stroke in the territory of the left middle cerebral artery. Diagnosis of ICA dissection was confirmed by CT-angiography and duplex ultrasound. Morphological study of resected ICA found two small arteries beginning from ICA, small aneurismatic dilatation of the ICA wall and evidence of fibromuscular dysplasia. In two months, swallowing significantly improved and right hemiparesis partly regressed. Clinical and morphological data suggest that fibromuscular dysplasia was the cause of dissection and ischemia of the lower cranial nerves was the cause of their palsies. Blood supply of the lower cranial nerves was not from the external carotid artery, as usually, but from the ICA. Its dissection led to the interruption of the nutrient arteries and as the result – to nerve ischemia.

 
 

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Lyudmila A. Kalashnikova

Research Center of Neurology

Author for correspondence.
Email: kalashnikovaNCN@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow

Tat'yana S. Gulevskaya

Research Center of Neurology

Email: kalashnikovaNCN@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow

Pavel L. Anufriev

Research Center of Neurology

Email: kalashnikovaNCN@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5327-2275

Cand. Sci. (Med.), senior researcher, Laboratory of neuromorphology

Russian Federation, 125367, Moscow, Volokolamskoye shosse, 80

Rodion N. Konovalov

Research Center of Neurology

Email: kalashnikovaNCN@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5539-245X

Cand. Sci. (Med.), senior researcher, Neuroradiology department

Russian Federation, 125367 Moscow, Volokolamskoye shosse, 80

Vladimir L. Shchipakin

Research Center of Neurology

Email: kalashnikovaNCN@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1428-2769

Cand. Sci. (Med.), Head, Group of vascular and endovascular surgery, senior researcher

Russian Federation, 125367 Moscow, Volokolamskoye shosse, 80

Andrey O. Chechetkin

Research Center of Neurology

Email: kalashnikovaNCN@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8726-8928

D. Sci. (Med.), Head, Ultrasound diagnostic laboratory

Russian Federation, Moscow

I. A. Avdunina

Scientific Center of Neurology

Email: kalashnikovaNCN@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow

V. V. Selivanov

Scientific Center of Neurology

Email: kalashnikovaNCN@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow

Eduard V. Pavlov

Research Center of Neurology

Email: kalashnikovaNCN@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow

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