Bilateral internal carotid artery hypotrophy in malignant osteopetrosis

Singapore Med J. 2008 Jul;49(7):e175-7.

Abstract

Malignant osteopetrosis is associated with petrous carotid canal and internal carotid artery stenosis in the skull base. We present a four-year-old boy with malignant osteopetrosis who developed right frontal lobe infarction as a result of bilateral internal carotid artery hypotrophy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Blood Transfusion
  • Brain / pathology
  • Carotid Arteries / pathology*
  • Carotid Stenosis / complications
  • Carotid Stenosis / pathology*
  • Cerebral Angiography / methods
  • Child, Preschool
  • Humans
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional
  • Male
  • Osteopetrosis / complications
  • Osteopetrosis / pathology*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods