Cerebral Arterial Thrombosis in Ulcerative Colitis.

Thrombosis, mainly venous, is a rare and well-recognized extraintestinal manifestation of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). We describe a 25-year-old Caucasian man affected by ulcerative colitis and sclerosing cholangitis with an episode of right middle cerebral arterial thrombosis resolved by intraarterial thrombolysis.We perform a brief review of the International Literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]