Carotid Artery Dissection as a Result of Penetrating Ear Trauma

CASE PRESENTATION: Here we present the case of a previously healthy 67-year-old female with carotid artery dissection as a result of penetrating ear trauma. DISCUSSION: Carotid artery dissection can result from unusual mechanisms of injury and present without typical symptoms or exam findings. If le...

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Autores principales: Peairs, Nicholas, Stillings, Joel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2020
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Images in Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7434290/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32926726
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2020.6.47537
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description CASE PRESENTATION: Here we present the case of a previously healthy 67-year-old female with carotid artery dissection as a result of penetrating ear trauma. DISCUSSION: Carotid artery dissection can result from unusual mechanisms of injury and present without typical symptoms or exam findings. If left untreated, devastating neurologic sequela can occur. Physicians must have a low threshold to obtain vascular imaging to appropriately manage such cases.
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spelling pubmed-74342902020-08-20 Carotid Artery Dissection as a Result of Penetrating Ear Trauma Peairs, Nicholas Stillings, Joel Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Images in Emergency Medicine CASE PRESENTATION: Here we present the case of a previously healthy 67-year-old female with carotid artery dissection as a result of penetrating ear trauma. DISCUSSION: Carotid artery dissection can result from unusual mechanisms of injury and present without typical symptoms or exam findings. If left untreated, devastating neurologic sequela can occur. Physicians must have a low threshold to obtain vascular imaging to appropriately manage such cases. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2020-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7434290/ /pubmed/32926726 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2020.6.47537 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Peairs et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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