Carotid artery dissection: a rare complication of Eagle syndrome

Rogin Subedi; Ryan Dean; Stamatis Baronos; Amit Dhamoon

doi:10.1136/bcr-2016-218184

Carotid artery dissection: a rare complication of Eagle syndrome

BMJ Case Rep. 2017 Mar 13:2017:bcr2016218184. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2016-218184.

Authors

Rogin Subedi¹, Ryan Dean¹, Stamatis Baronos¹, Amit Dhamoon¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA.

Abstract

Carotid artery dissection is a significant cause of ischaemic stroke in all age groups and accounts for a large percentage of strokes in young patients. Carotid dissection can be caused by trauma, underlying connective tissue disease, hypertension, mechanical injury or can be spontaneous. We present an exceedingly rare case of carotid dissection caused by an elongated styloid process, causing direct mechanical damage to the carotid artery.

2017 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Carotid Artery, Internal, Dissection / diagnosis
Carotid Artery, Internal, Dissection / etiology*
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Humans
Middle Aged
Muscle Weakness / etiology
Ossification, Heterotopic / complications*
Ossification, Heterotopic / diagnosis
Speech Disorders / etiology
Temporal Bone / abnormalities*

Supplementary concepts

Eagle syndrome