title: Endovascular treatment of post-pharyngitis internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysm with a covered stent in a child: a case report.
abstract: METHODS
  We report a case of 4-year-old boy patient, who developed after a streptococcal pharyngitis a painful, pulsatile, and growing right-sided mass in the neck. Imaging studies revealed an extracranial right internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysm. The patient was successfully treated with stent-graft deployment. After 18 months of follow-up, the pseudoaneurysm is excluded from the circulation, the carotid artery is patent, and the patient is free from any neurological deficit.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Covered stents might be considered as a valid therapeutic option to treat carotid artery pseudoaneurysms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Interventional Radiology, Hospital Nacional de Pediatría Prof. J.P. Garrahan, Combate de Pozos 1881 (1254), Buenos Aires, Argentina. frequejo@intramed.net
authors.forename: Flavio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Requejo
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sierre
authors.forename: Jose
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lipsich
authors.forename: Graciela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zuccaro
mesh_terms: D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D020212:Carotid Artery Injuries / Q000209:etiology; D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal / Q000601:surgery*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D057510:Endovascular Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010612:Pharyngitis / Q000150:complications; D015607:Stents; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed