Clinical and MRI long term evolution of intracavernous and carotid ophtalmic artery aneurysms, treated by common carotid ligation.
(1999) Acta Neurochirurgica : the European journal of neurosurgery — Vol. 141, n° 10, p. 1075-1082 (1999)
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- In four large, 15-25 mm, internal carotid artery aneurysms (3 intracavernous and 1 carotid ophthalmic), treatment by common carotid ligation was preferred. Pre- and postoperative MRI were obtained, at a delay between 5 to 9 years. Recovery of the ocular and visual symptomatology was a function of the role played by mechanical and/or ischaemic factors. No early or late consequences, ascribable to the common carotid ligation, were observed. Aneurysmal thrombosis occurred in the first postoperative week, but retraction of the thrombosed aneurysms was only obvious and maximal after several months. For this reason, rapid clinical recovery could be due, in the first instance, to the loss of aneurysmal pulsatility. Complete disappearance of the aneurysm was observed in two cases. In the other two, a small remnant of the initial lesion, without any unfavourable consequences, was revealed, respectively 6 and 9 years after the intervention, by current, modern-days, MRA.
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Stroobandt, G., Duprez, T., & Menard, E. (1999). Clinical and MRI long term evolution of intracavernous and carotid ophtalmic artery aneurysms, treated by common carotid ligation. Acta Neurochirurgica : the European journal of neurosurgery, 141(10), 1075-1082. https://doi.org/10.1007/s007010050485 (Original work published 1999)