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- Katharine M Forrest, Ata Siddiqui, Ming Lim, and Elizabeth Wraige.
- Department of Paediatric Neurology, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK.
- Childs Nerv Syst. 2011 Jan 1;27(1):193-6.
IntroductionDolichoectasia describes the elongation, dilatation and tortuosity of an arterial vessel. In adults, clinical presentation of basilar dolichoectasia (BD) is most often with ischaemic stroke. True BD has been very rarely reported in childhood, but the implication is of a congenital susceptibility.Case ReportWe describe two cases of infants with BD complicated by brainstem ischaemia.DiscussionThis first description of childhood BD associated with ischaemic infarction adds to the understanding of this rarely reported arteriopathy.
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