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New daily persistent headache — rare primary or secondary phenomena caused by carotid-cavernous fistula? A case report

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Carotid cavernous fistulas (CCF) are dural arteriovenous fistulas which include pathological communications between the arterial system and the venous cavernous sinus situated at the wall of the cavernous sinus. It can be demonstrated by wide range clinical presentations. The presented case shows a very modest clinical presentation of CCF which was present over a few months only as new daily persistent headache without initial positive findings on performed computer tomography of the head, but rapidly worsened over a period of few days.

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  1. Faculty of Medicine, University of Nis, Bul. Dr Zorana Djindjica 81, 18000, Nis, Serbia

    Srdjan Ljubisavljevic, Dragan Stojanov, Mirjana Spasic & Miroslava Zivkovic

  2. Clinic of Neurology, Clinical Centre Nis, Bul. Dr Zorana Djindjica 48, 18000, Nis, Serbia

    Srdjan Ljubisavljevic, Mirjana Spasic & Miroslava Zivkovic

  3. Center for Radiology, Clinical Centre Nis, Bul. Dr Zorana Djindjica 48, 18000, Nis, Serbia

    Dragan Stojanov

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Ljubisavljevic, S., Stojanov, D., Spasic, M. et al. New daily persistent headache — rare primary or secondary phenomena caused by carotid-cavernous fistula? A case report. cent.eur.j.med 9, 302–305 (2014). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11536-013-0267-1

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