J A Monge Argiles, J Bautista Prados, M D Ortega Ortega, J A Pérez Vicente, A Morales Ortiz
Megadolichobasilar (MDB) is a rare arterial anomaly consisting of excessive elongation, widening and tortuosity of the basilar artery. It may be associated with different neurological disturbances, including cerebral ischemic stroke, compression of the cranial nerves, hydrocephalus, headache and vertigo. Ulcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory bowel disease of unknown aetiology which may be complicated by arterial or venous cerebral illness, among others neurological anomalies. We report a patient suffering from UC who presented ischemic stroke...
May 2003: Neurología: Publicación Oficial de la Sociedad Española de Neurología