Carotid Artery Entrapment By Hyoid Bone - A Rare Cause of Recurrent Strokes in a Young Patient

We report a case of recurrent strokes in a 32 year-old woman due to an elongated hyoid bone causing thrombus formation in her right internal carotid artery (ICA) resulting in recurrent embolic strokes confirmed on diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Source: Annals of Vascular Surgery - September 12, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Anastasia Plotkin, Matthew G. Bartley, Kathryn E. Bowser, Jeniann A. Yi, Gregory A. Magee Source Type: research