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Internal carotid artery dissection at the cervical level is a known cause of stroke in young patients. The usual clinical presentation is strong ipsilateral cephalea and oculosympathetic paresis or ischemic symptoms in the affected artery. Paresis of the lower cranial nerves due to local compression in the space behind the parotid is rarely found and may complicate the diagnosis by leading physicians to look for anomalies in the vertebro-basilar territory. We present a patient with internal carotid artery dissection at the cervical level diagnosed by angiography. Symptoms at presentation were hemicranial cephalea accompanied by Villaret's syndrome. We point out the importance of keeping this diagnostic possibility in mind when looking for the etiology of subacute paresis of the lower cranial nerves.
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PMID:[Carotid artery dissection at the cervical level presenting as unilateral paresis of lower cranial nerves]. 780 53

Acute cerebral nerve paresis can be caused in many different ways. One of the more rare causes of paresis of one or more neural pathways is dissection of the internal carotid artery. Early diagnosis is important, even with atypical symptoms, since prompt anticoagulative therapy can hinder stroke from embolism due to the dissection. We report on two patients with Raeder's syndrome and Collet-Sicard syndrome resulting from dissection of the internal carotid artery. Besides the cranial and caudal nerves involved in our study, loss of function has also been reported with the sixth to eighth cranial nerves, so that any painful, sudden cranial nerve deficiency can indicate possible carotid dissection.
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PMID:[Raeder- and Collet-Siccard-Syndrome. Acute pareses of cranial nerves symptomatic of a dissection of internal carotid artery]. 1091 48