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PICA

Indian Journal of Dental Research, 2012
"PICA" means perverted appetite for substances not fit as food or of no nutritional value such as, bricks, clay, soil, ice, laundry starch, etc. The word ''PICA'' is derived from Latin word for Magpie, a species of bird that feeds on whatever it encounters.
Potluri Venkatalakshmi Aparna, Ravi David Austin, Philips Mathew   +2 more
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Association of iron deficiency anemia and eating clove in an 8-year-old girl. A rare case report

Journal of Contemporary Medicine, 2023
Iron-deficiency anemia is the most common nutrient disorder worldwide. It is defined pica as eating non-nutritive, non-food substances over a period of at least one month. Different types of pica have been reported in the literature.
Sadiye Sert
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Case Report: Can Ruptured Aneurysms in the Hypoplastic and Plexiform Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Arteries Be Safely Occluded?

Frontiers in Neurology, 2022
Aneurysms arising from the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) are not rare and may originate from the proximal or peripheral segment of the PICA.
Kun Hou, Jinlu Yu
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Practices of pica among pregnant women in a tertiary healthcare facility in Ghana

Nursing Open, 2020
Aim This study assessed the practice of pica among pregnant women in the Ho Teaching Hospital. Design Descriptive cross‐sectional. Methods Systematic sampling technique was used to recruit 286 pregnant women. Questionnaire was used to collect data.
Kennedy Diema Konlan, Juliana Asibi Abdulai, Kennedy Dodam Konlan, Roberta Mensima Amoah, Abdul‐Razak Doat   +4 more
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The prevalence and clinical significance of intracranial vertebral artery terminated in posterior inferior cerebellar artery: A multicenter hospital-based study in China

Frontiers in Neurology, 2022
ObjectiveIntracranial vertebral artery terminated in the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA-VA) is the most popular variant of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery, while its prevalence and clinical significance remained unclear.
Juehua Zhu, Ruiyun Huang, Kaiwen Ye, Hongbing Chen, Zheng Dai, Yongjun Jiang   +5 more
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Vertebral artery terminating in posterior inferior cerebellar artery: A normal variation with clinical significance. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
A vertebral artery (VA) terminating in a posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) is often considered to be a normal variation associated with VA hypoplasia. We aimed to investigate the clinical significance of this cerebrovascular variant. A total of
I-Wen Liu, Bo-Lin Ho, Chien-Fu Chen, Ke Han, Chung-Jung Lin, Wen-Yung Sheng, Han-Hwa Hu, A-Ching Chao   +7 more
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Stent implantation in a patient with non-hemorrhagic vertebral artery dissection associated with severe, continuously progressive stenosis in the posterior inferior cerebellar artery bifurcation region: A case report

Radiology Case Reports, 2022
Generally, the prognosis of non-hemorrhagic vertebral artery dissection is good. Treatment should be considered when stenosis progresses or when an aneurysm is formed. However, no clear treatment policy has been established.
Akio Nishino, MD, PhD, Motoki Nakamura, MD, Katsuhiko Nakanishi, MD, Eiji Kohmura, MD, PhD   +3 more
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Cerebral vascular reconstruction in the treatment of abnormal anastomosis of origin posterior inferior cerebellar artery complicated with aneurysms: two cases reports and literature review

Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2021
Objective Summarize the clinical characteristics and treatment plan of 2 cases of abnormal anastomosis at the origin of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) complicated with aneurysm.
YIN Hong⁃wei, SHANG Cheng⁃hao, ZHANG Guang⁃hao, LÜ Nan, LIU Jian⁃min, LI Qiang   +5 more
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Endovascular treatment of ruptured pica aneurysms and association with its extradural origin: A single-center experience

Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging, 2018
Background: Posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) like other intracranial arteries is prone to aneurysm formation. Aneurysms usually arise from the vertebral artery (VA)—PICA junction and the proximal segment of the PICA.
Somit Mittal, Vivek Singh, R. V. Phadke, Zafar Neyaz   +3 more
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Imaging Features and Etiology of Acute Cerebral Infarction in Bilateral PICA Territory

CT Lilun yu yingyong yanjiu, 2022
Objective: To investigate the MRI features and etiology of acute cerebral infarction in bilateral PICA territory. Methods: 38 patients with bilateral PICA and 40 patients with bilateral SCA diagnosed clinically and radiographically in Beijing Friendship ...
Rujing SUN, Shiyu ZHANG, Xu CHENG, Penggang QIAO   +3 more
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