Fibromuscular dysplasia of cervico-cephalic arteries with multiple dissections and a carotid-cavernous fistula. A pathological study.

Fibromuscular dysplasia of cervico-cephalic arteries with multiple dissections and a carotid-cavernous fistula. A pathological study.

A rare case of widespread fibromuscular dysplasia (F.M.D.) is reported, involving the cervico-cephalic arteries associated with multiple dissections, saccular aneurysms and a carotid-cavernous fistula. A detailed post-mortem examination revealed FMD involvement of the intracranial vessels, not demonstrated by arteriography.

MR in diffuse angiomatosis.

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Balloon embolization in a carotid-cavernous fistula in fibromuscular dysplasia.

Challenges in diagnosis and treatment of cervico-cephalic arterial dissections.

editorial Challenges in diagnosis and treatment of cervico-cephalic arterial dissections Desafios no diagnóstico e tratamento de dissecções cérvico-cefálicas I n this number of Arquivos de Neuro-psiquiatria, Fragoso and colleagues reported a series of fourty-one cases of cervical or intracranial arterial dissections. Clinical information was retrospectively collected for dissections considered ...

a case of traumatic carotid cavernous fistula

purpose: to describe a complicated case of traumatic carotid-cavernous fistula (ccf) and our management strategy. case report: a 13-year-old patient was referred one month following a car accident and facial trauma with severe proptosis, chemosis and limitation of ocular movement. presence of murmur and an enlarged superior ophthalmic vein on orbital imaging suggested an arteriovenous fistula. ...