Mastication Steal Syndrome

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• 刊名：Annals of Vascular Surgery
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：38
• 期：Complete
• 页码：321.e9-321.e11
• 全文大小：792 K
• 卷排序：38

文摘

A 56-year-old woman presented with episodic vertigo, dizziness, and diplopia during meals and prolonged verbal presentations at work. Subsequent work-up included an eventual catheter-based angiogram revealing an ostial left external carotid artery (ECA) occlusion with reconstituted retrograde flow via a variant collateral branch from the dominant left vertebral artery. The findings demonstrate that repetitive activities involving craniofacial muscular systems supplied by the ECA result in a symptomatic arterial steal syndrome via the enhanced diverted flow from the collateral vertebral-basilar arterial system. A left ECA endarterectomy with reimplantation of the vessel was performed, and the patient has been episode free thereafter.