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To the Editor: A 36-year-old man with intermittent migraine-like headache with aura for 20 years underwent cerebrovascular computed tomography angiography (CTA) revealing very small calibers of bilateral internal carotid arteries (ICAs) in other hospital. Transcranial doppler examination showed increased mean flow velocities (MFVs) in the bilateral posterior cerebral arteries (right, 75.5 +- 1.3 cm/s; left, 73.5 +- 1.3 cm/s) compared with the bilateral middle cerebral arteries in the headache-free period (right, 54.5 +- 2.4 cm/s;...

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Title
Congenital Hypoplasia of Bilateral Internal Carotid Artery with Migraine-Like Headache with Aura
Author
Zhang, Zhi-Yong; Sato, Shoichiro; Liu, Lei; Xue, Shuang; Liu, Zun-Jing; Tian, Zhao-Hui; Liu, Wei; Toyoda, Kazunori; Jiao, Jin-Song
Publication year
2015
Publication date
Feb 5, 2015
Publisher
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies
ISSN
03666999
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
1925799937
Copyright
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