{"title":"An unusual clinical presentation of ischemic stroke due to carotid dissection: The wrist drop","authors":"A. Pikula, J. Romero, C. Kase","doi":"10.5580/377","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We report a patient with sudden onset of right wrist drop mimicking radial nerve palsy, found to be due to a borderzone infarct due to spontaneous carotid artery dissection (CAD).","PeriodicalId":232166,"journal":{"name":"The Internet Journal of Neurology","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Internet Journal of Neurology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5580/377","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We report a patient with sudden onset of right wrist drop mimicking radial nerve palsy, found to be due to a borderzone infarct due to spontaneous carotid artery dissection (CAD).