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Emergency balloon occlusion for massive epistaxis due to traumatic carotid-cavernous aneurysm. Case report
R K Simpson1, R L Harper, R N Bryan
1Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
Journal of Neurosurgery
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
A patient with a giant traumatic aneurysm of the right internal carotid artery presented with recurrent massive epistaxis 30 years after a head injury. During an episode of acute hemorrhage, this patient was effectively treated with occlusion of the internal carotid artery circulation by a detachable inflatable balloon.