Bow Hunter’s Stroke Due to Stretching of the Vertebral Artery Fenestration: A Case Report
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Bow Hunter's syndrome is an unusual symptomatic vertebrobasilar insufficiency resulting from intermittent mechanical compression of the vertebral artery, and is rarely a trigger for cerebral infarction following thrombus formation on the damaged endothelial vessels (Bow Hunter's stroke). The authors present an extremely rare case of a 45-year-old man showing Bow Hunter's stroke due to congenital vertebral artery fenestration stretching and sliding between C1 and C2 after head rotation to the right. Congenital vertebral artery anomaly rarely causes cerebral infarction, but could cause embolic strokes by mechanical stretching without bony abnormalities.
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