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Case Reports
. 2013 Aug;79(4):524.
doi: 10.5935/1808-8694.20130094.

Endovascular treatment of a linguofacial trunk pseudoaneurysm after tonsillectomy

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Luciano Manzato  1 , Felipe Padovani Trivelato, Alexandre Yugo Holayama Alvarenga, Marco Túlio Rezende, Alexandre Cordeiro Ulhôa
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Case Reports

Endovascular treatment of a linguofacial trunk pseudoaneurysm after tonsillectomy

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Luciano Manzato et al. Braz J Otorhinolaryngol. 2013 Aug.
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Figure 1
A and B: Left external carotid angiography (lateral and AP projections) showing a pseudoaneuryms of the linguofacial trunk (arrows); C: Final control after internal trapping; D and E: Cast of coils; F: Retrograde flling of linguofacial vascular territory via internal maxillary artery anastomosis (arrowheads).
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