Internal Carotid Artery Dissection with Traumatic Pseudoaneurysm Formation after Penetrating Head Injury

A Penetrating Pellet Jeopardizing Internal Carotid Artery

Urgent Intracranial Carotid Artery Decompression after Penetrating Head Injury

We describe a case of intracranial carotid artery occlusion due to penetrating craniofacial injury by high velocity foreign body that was relieved by decompressive surgery. A 46-year-old man presented with a penetrating wound to his face. A piece of an electric angular grinder disc became lodged in the anterior skull base. Computed tomography revealed that the disc had penetrated the unilateral...

Internal carotid artery dissection and pseudoaneurysm formation with resultant ipsilateral hypoglossal nerve palsy

Craniocervical artery dissection is a potentially disabling condition caused by an intimal tear allowing blood to enter and dissect the media in the cranial direction which can occur spontaneously or as a result of trauma. When the dissection extends toward the adventitia, it can form a protrusion from the weakened vessel wall called a pseudoaneurysm, which may become a nidus for distal thrombo...

Endovascular embolization of traumatic intracavernous pseudoaneurysm of internal carotid artery.

Delayed epistaxis after head trauma is a common presentation of’ pseudoaneruysm, which should be investigated. Traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the intracavernous ICA is a rate condition resulting from fracture base of the skull. gunshot injuries to head or after surgery on pituitary fossa or sphenoid sinus. The pseudoaneutysni arises at the i nfrac I inoid port ion proximal to opthalmic artery and ...

Internal carotid artery dissection after childbirth.

A 44-year-old woman developed a left cerebral infarction secondary to internal carotid artery dissection 6 days after childbirth. A cesarean section had been carried out after 14 hours of strenuous unsuccessful labor. Although in the past some authors have implicated oral contraceptives as a cause for carotid dissection, carotid dissection associated with childbirth has not been previously desc...