Tortuous Carotid Artery Lumens in Takayasu's Arteritis

Hiroyuki Kawano; Kazunori Toyoda; Ryoichi Otsubo; Tomohito Hishikawa; Kazuo Minematsu

doi:10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2008.11.018

Tortuous Carotid Artery Lumens in Takayasu's Arteritis

Hiroyuki Kawano, Kazunori Toyoda, Ryoichi Otsubo, Tomohito Hishikawa, Kazuo Minematsu

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Abstract

We report a 68-year-old woman who was incidentally diagnosed as having an occlusion in the right internal carotid artery on magnetic resonance angiography. On ultrasound, the right common carotid artery showed narrow and tortuous lumens, which suggest the uneven thickening of the arterial wall in the nonactive stage of Takayasu's arteritis. Although macaroni-like diffuse and circumferential thickening of the arterial wall is a known ultrasonographic finding of Takayasu's arteritis, the tortuous sign also appears to be characteristic as an ultrasonographic finding of the healed arteritis in aged patients.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	403-404
Number of pages	2
Journal	Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases
Volume	18
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2008.11.018
Publication status	Published - Sept 2009
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Arterial wall imaging
carotid artery imaging
carotid ultrasound

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Surgery
Rehabilitation
Clinical Neurology
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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