Internal Carotid Artery Occlusion in Children
- 1 February 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in American Journal of Diseases of Children
- Vol. 107 (2) , 188-192
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1964.02080060190015
Abstract
Acute hemiplegia in children and adolescents remains both a diagnostic and a therapeutic problem. Ford and Schaffer1in 1927 felt that in previously healthy children, a sudden hemiplegia was most likely due to a vascular accident. Recently, Wisoff and Rothballer2have reviewed the literature and added two cases of their own of cerebral arterial thrombosis in children, making the total reported cases 29. In all 29, the diagnosis was confirmed by angiography, surgical exploration, or postmortem examination. They did not include the three cases mentioned by Taveras and Poser which were proved by means of carotid arteriography.3The purpose of this report is to add to the reported cases in the literature two other cases demonstrated by arteriography. Report of Cases Case 1.—A 12-year-old Negro schoolgirl, previously in very good health, was admitted to the Emergency Room of the University of Kansas Medical Center on June 6,Keywords
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