One case of iatrogenic common carotid artery pseudoaneurysm which was removed and repaired according cervicothoracic combined approach / 临床耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志

ABSTRACT

A 61-year-old patient with type I diabetes, diabetic nephropathy, thyroid hypofunction, chronic renal insufficiency anemia period, class IV heart function. During kidney dialysis, a little bleeding when puncture needle punctured the right common carotid artery, bleeding stopped after compression hemostasis. One week later, the patient complained of swollen neck, pain and difficult breathing. Ultrasonic examination suggested that local eminence beside the right common carotid artery, echoless and vascular interlinked; CDFI blood flow signal appeared the artery frequency spectrum, eddy current. Enhanced CT prompted right common carotid artery pseudoaneurysm, the contrast medium extravasated. The patient was diagnosed right common carotid artery pseudoaneurysm.