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Neuroradiology
Published in: Neuroradiology 4/2005

01-04-2005 | Interventional Neuroradiology

Life-threatening bleeding from a vertebral artery pseudoaneurysm after anterior cervical spine approach: endovascular repair by a triple stent-in-stent method. Case report

Authors: Meritxell Garcia Alzamora, Steffen K. Rosahl, Jens Lehmberg, Joachim Klisch

Published in: Neuroradiology | Issue 4/2005

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Abstract

The incidence of injury to the cervical vertebral artery during surgery for stenosis of the cervical neuroforamina is very low. We present a case in which bleeding during microforaminotomy at the level C6/7 occurred. The bleeding could be controlled intraoperatively. Two days later, a life-threatening cervical hematoma required urgent bedside evacuation. A false aneurysm of the left cervical vertebral artery was successfully occluded by a modified triple stent-in-stent technique, maintaining the flow in the vessel.
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Metadata
Title
Life-threatening bleeding from a vertebral artery pseudoaneurysm after anterior cervical spine approach: endovascular repair by a triple stent-in-stent method. Case report
Authors
Meritxell Garcia Alzamora
Steffen K. Rosahl
Jens Lehmberg
Joachim Klisch
Publication date
01-04-2005
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Neuroradiology / Issue 4/2005
Print ISSN: 0028-3940
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1920
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00234-005-1343-2

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