title: Synchronous saccular and fusiform extracranial internal carotid artery aneurysms with ipsilateral cerebral embolism.
abstract: We report the case of a 77-year-old woman with synchronous fusiform and saccular extracranial atherosclerotic internal carotid artery aneurysm treated by excisional surgery and external to internal carotid artery transposition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Vascular and General Surgery, Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 2JY, United Kingdom. edchedgy@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Edmund C P
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Chedgy
authors.forename: Robert D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Ward
authors.forename: Nicholas F
authors.initials: NF
authors.lastname: Lagattolla
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D016893:Carotid Stenosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020766:Intracranial Embolism / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D018608:Ultrasonography, Doppler; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures