Covered Stent Treatment of Carotid Blowout Syndrome
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Covered stent graft for treatment of a pseudoaneurysm and carotid blowout syndrome.
BACKGROUND Carotid blowout syndrome with pseudoaneurysm, a rapidly progressive pathology, may present emergently with massive oral hemorrhage. Use of an endograft prosthesis offers a treatment strategy with salvation of the carotid artery. CASE HISTORY A 55 year old man with advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck presented with recurrent transoral hemorrhage, requiring endovasc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Seminars in Interventional Radiology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0739-9529,1098-8963
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-971189