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Review
. 2015 Jul;30(4):543-6.
doi: 10.3904/kjim.2015.30.4.543. Epub 2015 Jun 29.

Fatal ischemic stroke in a case of progressive moyamoya vasculopathy associated with uncontrolled thyrotoxicosis

Bon D Ku  1 , Key-Chung Park  2 , Sung Sang Yoon  2
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Fatal ischemic stroke in a case of progressive moyamoya vasculopathy associated with uncontrolled thyrotoxicosis

Bon D Ku et al. Korean J Intern Med. 2015 Jul.
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Keywords: Moyamoya disease; Thyrotoxicosis.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. A conventional cerebral angiography of the patient showed total occlusion of the right supraclinoid internal carotid artery (ICA) with fine reticular collateral vessels (A, B; arrows) and severe stenosis in proximal portion of left middle cerebral and anterior cerebral arteries bifurcation site in left ICA (C, D; arrows).
Figure 2
Figure 2. The follow-up cerebral angiography showed decreased fine reticular collateral vessels in right internal carotid artery (ICA) (A, B; arrows) and progressive stenosis in proximal portion of middle cerebral artery and anterior cerebral artery bifurcation site in left ICA with decreased reticular collaterals (C, D; arrows).
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