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Vertebral Artery Dissection Following Minor Trauma in a Child
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Case Report
VOLUME: 8 ISSUE: 1
P: 61-64
April 2021

Vertebral Artery Dissection Following Minor Trauma in a Child

J Pediatr Emerg Intensive Care Med 2021;8(1):61-64
DOI: 10.4274/cayd.galenos.2020.85530
Halil Çelik 1
Ayşegül Danış 1
Mutlu Uysal Yazıcı 2
Mehtap Altuntaş 3
Berna Uçan 4
Ülkühan Öztoprak 1
1. Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi, Dr. Sami Ulus Kadın Doğum, Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Çocuk Nörolojisi Kliniği, Ankara, Türkiye
2. Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi, Dr. Sami Ulus Kadın Doğum, Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Çocuk Yoğun Bakım Kliniği, Ankara, Türkiye
3. Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi, Dr. Sami Ulus Kadın Doğum, Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Kliniği, Ankara, Türkiye
4. Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi, Dr. Sami Ulus Kadın Doğum, Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Çocuk Radyoloji Kliniği, Ankara, Türkiye
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Received Date: 20.01.2020
Accepted Date: 17.04.2020
Publish Date: 25.03.2021
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ABSTRACT

Vertebral artery dissection is extremely rare among the etiologies of acute arterial ischemic stroke in childhood. Most patients diagnosed with stroke secondary to dissection have a history of head and neck trauma. However, most of the time, patients may not give trauma anamnesis. In this article, we present a 9-year-old male patient with posterior ischemic stroke symptoms, who did not give trauma anamnesis at the first evaluation and was diagnosed as vertebral artery dissection. In patients with the symptoms of vertebrobasillar insufficiency, traumatic injuries should be kept in mind and radiological examinations should be planned for vertebral artery dissection, even if it cannot be learned in the history.

Keywords:
Childhood, vertebral artery dissection, trauma

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