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The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 1998 December;39(6):769-71

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lingua: Inglese

Treatment of extracranial internal carotid artery aneurysm with resection and external carotid artery bypass

Ik Kim D., Chang H. S., Huh S., Kim Y. I., Lee B. B.

From the Department of Surgery College of Medicine Sung kyun kwan University, Seoul, Korea

The ­authors ­report a ­case of extra­cra­nial ­internal ­carotid ­artery aneu­rysm ­with resec­tion of aneu­rysm and ­bridging a ­defect by ­using the ­external ­carotid ­artery ­after liga­tion of its ­distal end. ­This tech­nique pro­poses to pre­vent neo­in­timal hyper­plasia and anas­to­motic sten­osis.