The proximity between styloid process and internal carotid artery as a possible risk factor for dissection: a case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The anatomical proximity of the styloid process (SP) to the ipsilateral internal carotid artery (ICA) has been recently recognized as a possible risk factor for carotid artery dissection (CAD). We aimed to verify this hypothesis by comparing the minimum distance between SP and ICA in young adult patients (< 55 years) with and without CAD.

Methods

Thirty-one CAD patients (cases) were compared with 41 sex-matched patients without dissection, group one of control (G1), and with 16 sex-matched patients with vertebral artery dissection (VAD), group two of control (G2). Two independent observers measured, on CT angiography images, the minimum distance on the axial plane between the SP and ICA in cases and controls. They evaluated both the intercentric and the marginal dist

SUBMITTER: Venturini G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10105656 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature