Synchronous saccular and fusiform extracranial internal carotid artery aneurysms with ipsilateral cerebral embolism.
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.
Chedgy
Edmund C P
EC
Department of Vascular and General Surgery, Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 2JY, United Kingdom. edchedgy@hotmail.com
Ward
Robert D
RD
Lagattolla
Nicholas F
NF
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