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J Neurol Surg B Skull Base 2016; 77(05): 396-403
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1583539
Review Article
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Surgical and Nonsurgical Treatment of Vascular Skull Base Trauma

Brian C. Dahlin
1   Department of Radiology, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States
,
Ben Waldau
2   Department of Neurosurgery, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States
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24 May 2016 (online)

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Abstract

Vascular trauma is associated with blunt skull base fractures and penetrating injuries. We review the contemporary management of cranial vascular trauma, including blunt and penetrating cerebrovascular injury as well as refractory epistaxis from facial trauma.

Keywords

blunt cerebrovascular injury - penetrating vascular injury - traumatic aneurysm - cavernous-carotid fistula - vertebral artery dissection - epistaxis
 

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