Emergency endovascular treatment of a life-threatening hemorrhage from traumatic rupture of the left extracranial vertebral artery.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Hemorrhagic complications from transection of cervical arteries in blunt traumas are rare. We report a case of potentially fatal hemorrhage from rupture of the left vertebral artery in a closed trauma, successfully treated by endovascular injection of glue. Endovascular embolization may be considered as an alternative to surgical exploration in the treatment of traumatic lesions of vertebral arteries.
Medical subject headings
- Angioplasty, Balloon
- Contrast Media
- Embolization, Therapeutic
- Enbucrilate
- Iodized Oil
- Shock, Hemorrhagic
- Vertebral Artery
- Wounds, Nonpenetrating