Emergency Endovascular Interventions of Traumatic Cranial and Extracranial Injuries

Adam Gittleman; A. Orlando Ortiz; Robert A. Koenigsberg; M. Bernadette Stallmeyer; Gregg Zoarski; Sidney Glanz; Nicole Williams; David Ryu

doi:10.1055/s-2003-43319

Seminars in Interventional Radiology, Inhaltsverzeichnis

Semin intervent Radiol 2003; 20(2): 151-168
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-43319

Emergency Endovascular Interventions of Traumatic Cranial and Extracranial Injuries

Adam Gittleman^1,2 , A. Orlando Ortiz² , Robert A. Koenigsberg³ , M. Bernadette Stallmeyer⁴ , Gregg Zoarski² , Sidney Glanz² , Nicole Williams³ , David Ryu³

¹Resident, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, New York
²Department of Radiology, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, New York
³Department of Radiological Sciences, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsyvania
⁴Department of Radiology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Traumatic head and neck, and cerebrovascular injuries may result in a devastating consequence of vascular injuries involving the major cervical and cerebral vessels, potentially leading to hemorrhage, stroke, or death. Vascular injury may result in vessel transection, laceration, false aneurysm, arteriovenous fistula, or thrombosis. Massive hemorrhage may occur secondary to blunt, penetrating, or iatrogenic trauma. Surgical treatment, while at times curative, cannot always be performed, particularly when the location of the injury or the patient's unstable condition precludes surgical options. Endovascular treatment options include the use of uncovered or covered stents, endovascular coils and balloons, as well as liquid or solid embolic materials in reconstructing damaged arterial lumens, controlling pseudoaneurysm formation or lacerations, or when necessary, vessel sacrifice. The authors describe recent and ongoing developments in endovascular techniques and illustrate treatments that are currently available to the interventionalist for repair of these traumatic lesions.

KEYWORDS

Head and neck trauma - carotid artery - vertebral artery - intervention - endovascular

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