Posttraumatic Cavernous Segment Internal Carotid Artery Aneurysmal Rupture Presenting as Tentorial Subdural Hematoma
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Syamala Shunmugam; Thas Emmanuel; Shyam Duvuru
- Source
- Journal of neurological surgery. Part A, Central European neurosurgery. 78(5)
- Subject
- Carotid Artery Diseases
medicine.medical_specialty
Computed tomography
Aneurysm, Ruptured
03 medical and health sciences
Traumatic Aneurysm
0302 clinical medicine
Hematoma
Aneurysm
medicine.artery
medicine
Humans
cardiovascular diseases
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Head injury
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Hematoma, Subdural
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Closed head injury
cardiovascular system
Surgery
Female
Neurology (clinical)
Radiology
Internal carotid artery
business
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Carotid Artery, Internal
- Language
- ISSN
- 2193-6323
Traumatic aneurysm rupture following a closed head injury is rare. The rupture of a cavernous internal carotid artery (ICA) aneurysm following a head injury presenting as a tentorial subdural hematoma has not been reported in the literature. We discuss a 50-year-old woman with a closed head injury with her initial computed tomography scan showing a tentorial subdural hematoma. Further investigations revealed the presence of a ruptured cavernous ICA aneurysm. We also conducted a literature review of posttraumatic ICA aneurysmal rupture.