True Aneurysms of the Extracranial Carotid Artery : An Evaluation of Two “Giant Aneurysms” and the Current Literature

True extracranial carotid artery aneurysms (ECCAs) are uncommon. Atherosclerosis is the most common etiological factor. Neck pain, a pulsatile mass and murmur at auscultation are the most common symptoms. ECCAs may exhibit severe clinical manifestations due to complications. Cases of rupture can be...

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Autores principales: Altun, Gokalp, Pulathan, Zerrin, Hemsinli, Dogus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Neurosurgical Society 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5853199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29526073
http://dx.doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2017.0404.003
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Pulathan, Zerrin
Hemsinli, Dogus
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description True extracranial carotid artery aneurysms (ECCAs) are uncommon. Atherosclerosis is the most common etiological factor. Neck pain, a pulsatile mass and murmur at auscultation are the most common symptoms. ECCAs may exhibit severe clinical manifestations due to complications. Cases of rupture can be fatal. There is a risk of distal embolization and stroke in thrombosed cases. We discuss two cases of enlarged ECCA treated surgically in the light of the most recent literature.
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spelling pubmed-58531992018-03-21 True Aneurysms of the Extracranial Carotid Artery : An Evaluation of Two “Giant Aneurysms” and the Current Literature Altun, Gokalp Pulathan, Zerrin Hemsinli, Dogus J Korean Neurosurg Soc Case Report True extracranial carotid artery aneurysms (ECCAs) are uncommon. Atherosclerosis is the most common etiological factor. Neck pain, a pulsatile mass and murmur at auscultation are the most common symptoms. ECCAs may exhibit severe clinical manifestations due to complications. Cases of rupture can be fatal. There is a risk of distal embolization and stroke in thrombosed cases. We discuss two cases of enlarged ECCA treated surgically in the light of the most recent literature. Korean Neurosurgical Society 2018-03 2018-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5853199/ /pubmed/29526073 http://dx.doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2017.0404.003 Text en Copyright © 2018 The Korean Neurosurgical Society This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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True Aneurysms of the Extracranial Carotid Artery : An Evaluation of Two “Giant Aneurysms” and the Current Literature
title True Aneurysms of the Extracranial Carotid Artery : An Evaluation of Two “Giant Aneurysms” and the Current Literature
title_full True Aneurysms of the Extracranial Carotid Artery : An Evaluation of Two “Giant Aneurysms” and the Current Literature
title_fullStr True Aneurysms of the Extracranial Carotid Artery : An Evaluation of Two “Giant Aneurysms” and the Current Literature
title_full_unstemmed True Aneurysms of the Extracranial Carotid Artery : An Evaluation of Two “Giant Aneurysms” and the Current Literature
title_short True Aneurysms of the Extracranial Carotid Artery : An Evaluation of Two “Giant Aneurysms” and the Current Literature
title_sort true aneurysms of the extracranial carotid artery : an evaluation of two “giant aneurysms” and the current literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5853199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29526073
http://dx.doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2017.0404.003
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