Malignant cerebral infarction secondary to internal carotid injury in closed head trauma: Good outcome with aggressive treatment - A case report

Angiology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 107-114

  Çaǧavi, Ferda ^a   Tekkök, Ismail Hakki ^b   Akpinar, Gökhan ^a  

^a Bayindir Medical Center   (Turkey)

^b MERSIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DEXAMETHASONE; HEPARIN; MANNITOL;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIECTOMY; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; REVIEW; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY INJURIES; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALOCELE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; OCCIPITAL BONE; SKULL BASE; SKULL FRACTURES; TEMPORAL BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 12944249383     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331970505600116     Document Type: Review

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