title: Bilateral aberrant internal carotid arteries: treatment of a hemorrhagic complication.
abstract: The aberrant internal carotid artery is a rare congenital abnormality that may present with pulsatile hemorrhage if undiagnosed before surgical intervention in the middle ear. We present such a patient who was treated successfully with endovascular sacrifice of one of her bilateral lesions after recurrent episodes of pulsatile hemorrhage complicating multiple tympanostomy tube revisions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA 70121, USA.
authors.forename: William J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Knox
authors.forename: James M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Milburn
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dawson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008876:Middle Ear Ventilation; D010033:Otitis Media / Q000601:surgery*; D019106:Postoperative Hemorrhage / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed