Iatrogenic perforation of the internal carotid artery by a transarticular screw: An unusual case of repetitive ischemic stroke

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 466-469

  Bogaerde, Michel Vanden ^a   Viaene, Pieter ^b   Thijs, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arteriography; Carotid artery injury; Iatrogenic; Ischemic; Neurosurgery; Pseudoaneurysm; Stenting; Stroke; Transarticular screw fixation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; COUMARIN;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY PERFORATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FALSE ANEURYSM; FIXATION SCREW MALPOSITIONING; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROPHYLAXIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINE STABILIZATION; STENT; THROMBOSIS;

ANEURYSM, FALSE; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BONE SCREWS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY INJURIES; CAROTID ARTERY THROMBOSIS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISLOCATIONS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INFARCTION, POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL INJURIES;

EID: 34247526494     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.02.008     Document Type: Article

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