Journal of Trauma and Injury

The Korean Society of Traumatology (대한외상학회)
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Traumatic Internal Maxillary Artery Pseudoaneurysm Caused by Fracture of the Mandible Ramus: A Case Report

턱뼈가지의 골절로 인한 내상악동맥의 가성동맥류 1례

  • Han, Chang Dok (Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Inha University College of Medicine) ;
  • Kim, Young Hyo (Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Inha University College of Medicine) ;
  • Kim, Kyu-Sung (Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Inha University College of Medicine) ;
  • Choi, Hoseok (Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Inha University College of Medicine)
  • 한창덕 (인하대학교 의과대학 이비인후-두경부외과학교실) ;
  • 김영효 (인하대학교 의과대학 이비인후-두경부외과학교실) ;
  • 김규성 (인하대학교 의과대학 이비인후-두경부외과학교실) ;
  • 최호석 (인하대학교 의과대학 이비인후-두경부외과학교실)
  • Received : 2012.02.19
  • Accepted : 2012.03.12
  • Published : 2012.06.30
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Abstract

Traumatic pseudoaneurysms in the head and neck region are very rare. Particularyly, pseudoaneurysms of the internal maxillary artery are known to be very rare. The authors report a 20-year old male who was diagnosed as having a pseudoaneurysm of the internal maxillary artery. The cause was assumed to be a mandible ramus fracture. When he visited our emergency room, we did not consider a pseudoaneurysm because of his other life-threatening conditions. Fortunately, he re-visited our hosipital before the aneurysm ruptured. He was diagnosed with angiography and was treated by using embolization with glue. The rupture of the pseudoaneurysm could have caused a life-threatening hemorrhage.

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