Summary
A 24-year-old woman with a left-sided cerebral infarction presented with hemiplegia and aphasia. Five months earlier she had had a closed head injury. Angiography revealed bilateral extracranial post-traumatic aneurysms of the internal carotid artery at the atlanto-axial level. There was full recovery without operative treatment within a week.
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Malin, JP., Becker, H. & Abicht, J. Bilateral traumatic extracranial aneurysms of the internal carotid artery with delayed brain infarction. J Neurol 232, 314–317 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00313873
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00313873