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Posterior communicating artery injury and symptomatic vasospasm after high-energy blunt head injury: illustrative
Nidal B Omar1, Gustavo Chagoya1, Dario Marotta2
1Department of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; and.
Background:
Most of the published literature pertaining to blunt traumatic cerebrovascular injury (BCVI) is focused on extracranial arterial injury. Studies of intracranial arterial injury are relatively uncommon.
Observations:
The clinical course of a patient who sustained an injury to the right posterior communicating artery followed by infarction due to vasospasm after severe traumatic brain injury is presented, along with a focused literature review.
Lessons:
Intracranial BCVI is uncommon, and this report may serve to raise awareness of BCVI management and the importance of recognizing symptomatic vasospasm due to BCVI.
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