Blunt internal carotid artery injury associated with facial fractures

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 789-796

  Yang, Wen Guei ^b   Chen, Chien Tzung ^a   De Villa, Glenda H ^b   Lai, Jui Ping ^b   Chen, Yu Ray ^b  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FACE FRACTURE; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CAROTID ARTERY INJURIES; CAROTID ARTERY THROMBOSIS; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FACIAL BONES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MANDIBULAR FRACTURES; MAXILLARY FRACTURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SKULL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0037314433     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000041541.72469.53     Document Type: Article

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