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. 2019 Jan;21(1):108-111.
doi: 10.5853/jos.2018.02705. Epub 2019 Jan 31.

Internal Carotid Artery Hypoplasia: A New Clinical Feature in Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum

Loukman Omarjee  1   2   3 , Jacques-Olivier Fortrat  3 , Antoine Larralde  4 , Estelle Le Pabic  5 , Gilles Kauffenstein  2   3 , Maxence Laot  4 , Nastassia Navasiolava  2   3 , Pierre-Jean Mention  6 , Juan Luis Carrillo Linares  7 , Pedro Valdivielso  7 , Olivier M Vanakker  8 , Guillaume Mahé  1 , Ludovic Martin  2   3 , Georges Lefthériotis  2   9
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Internal Carotid Artery Hypoplasia: A New Clinical Feature in Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum

Loukman Omarjee et al. J Stroke. 2019 Jan.
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Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Prevalence of internal carotid artery hypoplasia (ICAH) in one cohort of pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) patients and another cohort of non-PXE patients. *P<0.0001.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
(A) Computed tomography angiography (CTA) with 3D volume rendering reconstruction of unilateral left internal carotid artery hypoplasia (ICAH) in a female pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) patient in coronal plane (yellow arrow). (B) Upper view of small aneurysm of anterior communicating artery (yellow arrow) with visualization of circle of Willis and base of skull. (C) Reconstructed CTA image of internal carotid artery in a female PXE patient with left ICAH (yellow arrow).
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