Traumatic Middle Meningeal Artery Pseudoaneurysms Presenting with Intractable Epistaxis: A Rare Case Report and Review of Literature
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53323#.VL3BWizQrzE Author(s) Jianjun Gu 1* , Jun Lu 1 , Xiaolin Wang 1 , Zehao Liu 1 , Guangzhong Gao 1 , Shiming Zhang 2 Affiliation(s) 1 Departments of Neurosurgery, Taizhou People’s Hospital, Taizhou, China . 2 Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China . ABSTRACT Middle meningeal artery (MMA) pseudoaneurysms are very rare and are most often traumatic. They may present as an epidural or intraparenchymal hematoma. This study reports a rare case in which a patient suffered from intractable epistaxis because of a pseudoaneurysm in middle meningeal artery and skull base fracture after craniocerebra trauma. Pseudoaneurysm and the feeding artery were embolized by using Onyx-18 liquid embolic system. Complete cessation of bleeding was achieved in this case immediately after the endovascular ther...