Intimal lesion of the primitive carotid due to blunt neck trauma
Keywords:
neck trauma, surgeryAbstract
The authors present one case of a 32 year old patient who suffered blunt trauma in the neck, with an intimal tear of the primitive carotid, clinically and radiologically diagnosed in the pre operative.
A surgical solution of the case is presented.
lnternational statistical data is provided, and the authors conclude that the sugpicion of carotid lesion must arise in all cases of cervical trauma; that an urgent arteriography must be performed to confirm the lesion and that once the lesion is confirmed it must be operated on inmediately.
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