Post-traumatic Carotid Artery Dissection and Infarction

Abstract

Post-traumatic internal carotid artery dissection is a very rare condition in children that occurs after blunt force trauma to the head or neck. A 15-year-old male patient who presented to the emergency room with weakness after a trauma to his neck sustained during a physical altercation is presented.

Keywords

• pediatric trauma
• internal carotid artery
• dissection
• ischemic stroke