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01-08-2013 | Case Report

Endovascular treatment of post-pharyngitis internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysm with a covered stent in a child: a case report

Authors: Flavio Requejo, Sergio Sierre, Jose Lipsich, Graciela Zuccaro

Published in: Child's Nervous System | Issue 8/2013

Abstract

Case report

We report a case of 4-year-old boy patient, who developed after a streptococcal pharyngitis a painful, pulsatile, and growing right-sided mass in the neck. Imaging studies revealed an extracranial right internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysm. The patient was successfully treated with stent-graft deployment. After 18 months of follow-up, the pseudoaneurysm is excluded from the circulation, the carotid artery is patent, and the patient is free from any neurological deficit.

Discussion

Covered stents might be considered as a valid therapeutic option to treat carotid artery pseudoaneurysms.

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Title: Endovascular treatment of post-pharyngitis internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysm with a covered stent in a child: a case report
Authors: Flavio Requejo
Sergio Sierre
Jose Lipsich
Graciela Zuccaro
Publication date: 01-08-2013
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Child's Nervous System / Issue 8/2013
Print ISSN: 0256-7040
Electronic ISSN: 1433-0350
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-013-2083-y

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Endovascular treatment of post-pharyngitis internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysm with a covered stent in a child: a case report

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Case report

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