To cite: Man BK, FU YP. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2013-201338 DESCRIPTION Oculomotor nerve palsy as the only manifestation of ipsilateral common carotid artery occlusion is rare. A 31-year-old man had history of nasopharyngeal carcinoma with radiation therapy performed when he was at the age of 14. He developed diplopia during work. He denie...

the carotid is a small mass of chemoreceptor's and sustentacular cells that detects changes in the composition of the arterial blood. the aim of the present study was to identify the size, color, location, blood and nerve supply of the carotid body in makouei sheep. fourteen heads of sheep from both sexes were collected from urmia public slaughter-house. the exact situation and nerve supply of ...

In patients with high-grade atherosclerotic stenosis or occlusion of the extracranial cerebral arteries, subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) may occur, potentially due to rupture of fragile dilated pial collateral vessels. This association has been well described in Moyamoya disease. There are only few cases in the literature that reported SAH due to bilateral carotid artery stenosis but intraventric...

Five percent to 15% of patients with carotid territory transient ischemic attacks or cerebral infarctions have complete occlusion of the internal carotid artery. Their risk of recurrent stroke during the next 2 years while on medical therapy is 5% to 9% per year for all stroke and 2% to 8% per year for ipsilateral ischemic stroke. Debate on the best means to prevent recurrence has centered on w...

Many authors have drawn attention to occlusive disease of the carotid arteries as a cause of cerebral ischemia. Although total carotid artery occlusion may be caused by different disease entities, by far the most frequent cause remains atherosclerosis. However, because of uncertainty about the pathophysiology of symptomatic internal carotid artery (ICA) occlusion, there has been controversy sur...

Five percent to 15% of patients with carotid territory transient ischemic attacks or cerebral infarctions have complete occlusion of the internal carotid artery. Their risk of recurrent stroke during the next 2 years while on medical therapy is 5% to 9% per year for all stroke and 2% to 8% per year for ipsilateral ischemic stroke. Debate on the best means to prevent recurrence has centered on w...

Carotid occlusion is a common disease and its incidence is about 6 in 100000. Annual risk of stroke is between 3% and 10% in older than 60 years with carotid occlusion and recurrent ischemic event have been reported in 25% of symptomatic carotid occlusion.1 Since many years ago it has been advocated in complete arterial occlusion, there was no chance for emboli to pass into the distal circulati...