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Endovascular treatment of post-pharyngitis internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysm with a covered stent in a child: a case report

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Case report

We report a case of 4-year-old boy patient, who developed after a streptococcal pharyngitis a painful, pulsatile, and growing right-sided mass in the neck. Imaging studies revealed an extracranial right internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysm. The patient was successfully treated with stent-graft deployment. After 18 months of follow-up, the pseudoaneurysm is excluded from the circulation, the carotid artery is patent, and the patient is free from any neurological deficit.

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Covered stents might be considered as a valid therapeutic option to treat carotid artery pseudoaneurysms.

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  1. Department of Interventional Radiology, Hospital Nacional de Pediatría “Prof. J.P. Garrahan”, Combate de los Pozos 1881 (1254), Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Flavio Requejo, Sergio Sierre & Jose Lipsich

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Nacional de Pediatría “Prof. J.P. Garrahan”, Combate de los Pozos 1881 (1254), Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Flavio Requejo & Graciela Zuccaro

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Requejo, F., Sierre, S., Lipsich, J. et al. Endovascular treatment of post-pharyngitis internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysm with a covered stent in a child: a case report. Childs Nerv Syst 29, 1369–1373 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-013-2083-y

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