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Posterior Communicating Artery Injury and Symptomatic Vasospasm After High-energy Blunt Head Injury: Illustrative Case

Overview
Journal J Neurosurg Case Lessons
Specialty Neurology
Date 2022 Jul 20
PMID 35855314
Authors
Nidal B Omar
Gustavo Chagoya
Dario Marotta
Galal Elsayed
Mark R Harrigan
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Abstract

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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