Carotid-cavernous ... may cause the internal carotid artery to be torn from its points of dural attachment and rupture, with resultant direct flow into the cavernous sinus. Current treatment ...

Vascular causes of facial pain include aneurysms of the internal carotid ... Arteriovenous malformations between the carotid artery and the cavernous sinus or fistulas are also possible causes, with a ...

The 53-year-old said doctors had planned to thread a needle through an artery to pack the aneurysm with coils, but had discovered it was on a Y-shaped junction of a blood vessel, making the ...

1 In our case, the aneurysm was located in the distal third of the splenic artery, so the spleen could not be preserved; a splenectomy and aneurysmectomy were performed using the traditional open ...

Background Occlusion of the internal carotid artery (ICA) may extend into the middle or anterior cerebral artery (ICA-T) or be confined to the intracranial (ICA-I) or extracranial segment (ICA-E).

This article was originally posted Dec. 8, 2014. It has been updated. There are many things in medicine that are merely a matter of preference or style. How to check a patient’s pulse is not one ...

Carotid sinus hypersensitivity is rarely diagnosed before age 50 and is more common in men than women. Men with heart conditions such as hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, coronary artery disease and ...