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. 2018 Apr-Jun;11(2):151.
doi: 10.4103/JETS.JETS_31_17.

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Associated with Internal Carotid Artery Dissection and Pseudoaneurysm

Wellingson Silva Paiva  1 , Barbara Albuquerque Morais  1 , Almir Ferreira de Andrade  1 , Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira  1
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Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Associated with Internal Carotid Artery Dissection and Pseudoaneurysm

Wellingson Silva Paiva et al. J Emerg Trauma Shock. 2018 Apr-Jun.
No abstract available

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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Computed tomography angiography showed pseudoaneurysm in the right internal carotid artery
Figure 2
Figure 2
Digital angiography image. In (a) preoperative image showing pseudoaneurysm and dissection in internal carotid aneurysm and (b) postoperative image showing improve of dissection segment with stent
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