Carotid blowout syndrome in patients treated by larynx cancer.

Carotid blowout syndrome in patients treated by larynx cancer

Endovascular therapy for the carotid blowout syndrome in head and neck surgical patients: diagnostic and managerial considerations.

PURPOSE To review our institution's recent experience with patients with carotid blowout syndrome who were referred for emergency diagnostic angiography and endovascular therapy. METHODS Eighteen consecutive patients who had had surgery for cancer of the head and neck and in whom carotid blowout syndrome had occurred were referred to our service in accordance with a standardized protocol. R...

Brain abscess formation: a delayed complication of carotid blowout syndrome treated by self-expandable stent-graft.

A patient with hypopharyngeal cancer developed carotid blowout syndrome (CBS) treated by self-expandable stent-graft in the left carotid artery. CT scan for progressive right hemiparesis 4 months later showed multiple left cerebral abscesses and left carotid thrombosis. Although deployment of stent-grafts for CBS can achieve initial hemostasis in patients with head-and-neck cancer, the placemen...

Endoluminal Stent Placement in the Management of Recurrent Carotid Blowout Syndrome

This report is of a patient with acute carotid blowout syndrome that was managed successfully with emergency placement of a covered stent. A 68-year-old man with carcinoma of the tongue had been treated surgically and underwent repeated radiotherapy for recurrence. He presented with intermittent brisk bleeding from a wound in his neck. An urgent carotid angiogram was performed and revealed a ps...

CT angiography findings in carotid blowout syndrome and its role as a predictor of 1-year survival.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Carotid blowout is a serious late complication of prior treatment of advanced head and neck cancer. We evaluate the efficacy of CTA in the diagnosis of impending carotid blowout syndrome in patients with head and neck cancer, and its capability to predict clinical outcome. MATERIALS AND METHODS The clinical data of 29 patients with impending carotid blowout who underwen...