Bilateral blunt carotid artery trauma associated with a double lower thoracic spine fracture: a case report and review of the literature

BACKGROUND: A 26 year old female suffering from a double fracture of the lower thoracic spine, as a result of a car accident, was referred to the Spine Unit of our Department. No neurological deficit was detected during clinical examination. Due to the fracture's instability, posterior stabiliz...

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Autores principales: Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios S, Athanasakopoulos, Michalis, Kokkinis, Konstantinos, Korres, Dimitrios, Pneumaticos, Spyros G
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2648945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19109879
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-420
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author Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios S
Athanasakopoulos, Michalis
Kokkinis, Konstantinos
Korres, Dimitrios
Pneumaticos, Spyros G
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Korres, Dimitrios
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description BACKGROUND: A 26 year old female suffering from a double fracture of the lower thoracic spine, as a result of a car accident, was referred to the Spine Unit of our Department. No neurological deficit was detected during clinical examination. Due to the fracture's instability, posterior stabilization was performed. CASE PRESENTATION: Postoperatively, the patient presented a decrease in Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) combined with motor and sensory deficit from the right upper and lower extremities. Cerebral ischemia was diagnosed, secondary to distal emboli from the right and left internal carotid arteries bilaterally. CONCLUSION: Patients' neurological deficits eventually resolved after conservative treatment and anticoagulation therapy.
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spelling pubmed-26489452009-02-28 Bilateral blunt carotid artery trauma associated with a double lower thoracic spine fracture: a case report and review of the literature Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios S Athanasakopoulos, Michalis Kokkinis, Konstantinos Korres, Dimitrios Pneumaticos, Spyros G Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: A 26 year old female suffering from a double fracture of the lower thoracic spine, as a result of a car accident, was referred to the Spine Unit of our Department. No neurological deficit was detected during clinical examination. Due to the fracture's instability, posterior stabilization was performed. CASE PRESENTATION: Postoperatively, the patient presented a decrease in Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) combined with motor and sensory deficit from the right upper and lower extremities. Cerebral ischemia was diagnosed, secondary to distal emboli from the right and left internal carotid arteries bilaterally. CONCLUSION: Patients' neurological deficits eventually resolved after conservative treatment and anticoagulation therapy. BioMed Central 2008-12-25 /pmc/articles/PMC2648945/ /pubmed/19109879 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-420 Text en Copyright © 2008 Evangelopoulos et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios S
Athanasakopoulos, Michalis
Kokkinis, Konstantinos
Korres, Dimitrios
Pneumaticos, Spyros G
Bilateral blunt carotid artery trauma associated with a double lower thoracic spine fracture: a case report and review of the literature
title Bilateral blunt carotid artery trauma associated with a double lower thoracic spine fracture: a case report and review of the literature
title_full Bilateral blunt carotid artery trauma associated with a double lower thoracic spine fracture: a case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Bilateral blunt carotid artery trauma associated with a double lower thoracic spine fracture: a case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral blunt carotid artery trauma associated with a double lower thoracic spine fracture: a case report and review of the literature
title_short Bilateral blunt carotid artery trauma associated with a double lower thoracic spine fracture: a case report and review of the literature
title_sort bilateral blunt carotid artery trauma associated with a double lower thoracic spine fracture: a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2648945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19109879
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-420
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