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SUBMITTER: Liu G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8440883 | biostudies-literature | 2021
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Gang G Wang Yuan Y Chu Changbiao C Ren Yi Y Hua Yang Y Ji Xunming X Song Haiqing H
Frontiers in neurology 20210901
The investigation for etiology of ischemic stroke in young adults remains a diagnostic challenge. Hyoid bone-related carotid injury is a rare and under-recognized cause of ischemic stroke, without established guidelines. We describe a case of recurrent ischemic stroke in a young patient presumably attributed to an impingement of the carotid artery by an elongated hyoid bone, and present other cases reported in the literature. Based on the imaging study as well as the lack of other findings, we a ...[more]