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Rupture of cavernous carotid artery aneurysm causing subdural hematoma and death. Case report
J E Hodes1, W A Fletcher, D F Goodman
1Department of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
Journal of Neurosurgery
|October 1, 1988
Abstract:
Aneurysms of the intracavernous portion of the internal carotid artery may become very large, but they very rarely rupture. A case is described in which rupture of such a lesion resulted in a lethal massive subdural hematoma with transtentorial herniation. This is the second reported case of substantiated intracranial rupture from a wholly intracavernous carotid artery aneurysm.