Rotational vertebral artery (VA) occlusion can cause ischemic strokes due to hemodynamic insufficiency and possibly artery-to-artery (A-to-A) embolism. The former is known as bow hunter's stroke. The latter has been proposed only from indirect evidence. We have described a 7-year-old boy with cerebral infarction associated with A-to-A embolism due to repetitive rotational VA occlusion. He had a mobile mural thrombus at the VA occlusion site on head rotation. Surgical treatment may effectively prevent recurrences. © 2008 by the American Society of Neuroimaging.
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Saito, K., Hirano, M., Taoka, T., Nakagawa, H., Kitauchi, T., Tanizawa, E., … Ueno, S. (2010). Artery-to-artery embolism with a mobile mural thrombus due to rotational vertebral artery occlusion. Journal of Neuroimaging, 20(3), 284–286. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1552-6569.2008.00309.x
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