Delayed epistaxis resulting from external carotid artery injury requiring embolization: A rare complication of transsphenoidal surgery: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 236-239

  Cockroft, K M ^a   Carew, J F ^a   Trost, D ^a   Fraser, R A R ^a   Chandler, W F ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endovascular embolization; Epistaxis; External carotid artery injury; Pituitary adenoma; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; ADULT; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CASE REPORT; EPISTAXIS; EXTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HUMAN; NOSE SEPTUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; CAROTID ARTERY INJURIES; CAROTID ARTERY, EXTERNAL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034525328     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200007000-00052     Document Type: Article

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