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Panminerva Medica 2000 December;42(4):295-7

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language: English

Arterial thoracic outlet syndrome with embolic cerebral infarction. Report of a case

Nishibe T., Kunihara T., Kudo F. A., Adachi A., Shiiya N., Murashita T., Matusi Y., Yasuda K.

From the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery Hokkaido University Hospital Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Cerebral embo­lism is a ­very ­rare but rec­og­nized man­i­fes­ta­tion of arte­ri­al com­pli­ca­tions of tho­rac­ic out­let syn­drome, and is asso­ciat­ed ­with ret­ro­grade embol­iza­tion in the cere­bral arter­ies. We here­in ­report a ­case of embol­ic ­brain infarc­tion due to arte­ri­al tho­rac­ic out­let syn­drome ­while dis­cuss­ing the eti­ol­o­gy, diag­no­sis, and sur­gery.