Spasm of the Cervical Internal Carotid Artery

A Penetrating Pellet Jeopardizing Internal Carotid Artery

Cervical internal carotid artery injuries due to blunt trauma.

Blunt or nonpenetrating trauma to the head and neck occasionally results in damage to the cervical segment of the internal carotid artery. This may produce neurologic signs and symptoms that mimic acute craniocerebral injury. The mortality and morbidity associated with these injuries are alarmingly high. These injuries may be missed if one relies only on computed tomography. Angiography is stil...

Cervical internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysm following stab injury.

Carotid artery pseudoaneurysm is a rare complication of injury to the head and neck, which has been traditionally managed by an open surgical repair to avoid the occurrence of devastating cerebral strokes. Their treatment presents a challenge because of the risk of serious neurological events. This report presents a case of a stab penetrating injury to the left upper neck (Monson`s zone-III), w...

Management of Internal Mammary Artery Spasm

The article is dedicated to the management of internal mammary artery spasm intraand postoperatively based on the accumulated evidence in the literature. It provides stepwise decision algorithms for safely resolving the spasm and prevention of relapse. INTRODUCTION The left internal mammary artery (IMA) is the most widely used graft and is predominantly anastomosed to the left anterior descendi...

Routine MR imaging of the internal carotid artery siphone: angiographic correlation with cervical carotid lesions.

This study correlates the appearance of the cavernous segment of the carotid artery on MR images with the presence of significant stenosis or occlusion of the cervical carotid artery as seen on angiograms in 100 patients who had brain MR imaging and arteriography within a 1-week period. Four patients demonstrated isointense signal within the carotid artery's cavernous segment; two of these find...