Traumatic Internal Carotid Artery Aneurysm with a Concomitant Carotid Cavernous Fistula

Carotid-cavernous fistula due to traumatic dissection of the extracranial internal carotid artery.

Six cases of traumatic dissection of the extracranial carotid artery that were all treated conservatively are reported. The initial trauma was believed to be an intimal tear caused by severe stretching of the artery over the process of a cervical vertebra due to sudden hyperextension and lateral flexion of the neck to the opposite side. No clinical evidence of neck trauma was present, but one p...

Ruptured aneurysm of the anomalous cerebellar artery originating from internal carotid artery presenting with carotid cavernous fistula: a case report.

We report a case of a ruptured aneurysm of the anomalous cerebellar artery originating from internal carotid artery presenting with a carotid cavernous fistula (CCF). An initial angiogram showed the typical appearance of a CCF with a direct fistulous tract with focal aneurysmal dilation from the ascending cavernous segment of the right internal carotid artery. A postembolization angiogram of th...

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. ...

Traumatic aneurysms of cavernous internal carotid artery with secondary epistaxis.

The syndrome of delayed epistaxis and monocular blindness following nonpenetrating head injury is reviewed. Bleeding results from rupture of a traumatic cavernous internal carotid artery aneurysm into the sphenoid sinus. There were 96 patients with this syndrome found in the literature and another four are added in this report. In 73% of the patients, the cause of the epistaxis was not apprecia...

Hypopituitarism caused by bilateral internal carotid artery aneurysms with a carotid-cavernous fistula.