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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Indian Journal of Neurotrauma 2021; 18(02): 142-145
DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1717218
Case Report

Posttraumatic Carotid Cavernous Fistula–A Rare Case

Amit Dahiya
1   Department of Neurosurgery, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences, Indore, India
,
Sumit Dahiya
1   Department of Neurosurgery, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences, Indore, India
,
Suresh Kumar S
1   Department of Neurosurgery, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences, Indore, India
,
Shrikant V Rege
1   Department of Neurosurgery, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences, Indore, India
,
Gaurav Jatav
1   Department of Neurosurgery, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences, Indore, India
,
Krishna Chaitanya
1   Department of Neurosurgery, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences, Indore, India
,
Sandeep Varma
1   Department of Neurosurgery, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences, Indore, India
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Abstract

Carotid cavernous fistula (CCF) is a specific type of dural arteriovenous (AV) fistula characterized by abnormal AV shunting within the cavernous sinus. The authors presented in this article a case of a 17-year-old young male patient who encountered a road traffic accident while driving a car, with a history of flipping of cars multiple times. The patient was unconscious with symmetrical bilateral (B/L) pupils and with Glasgow coma scale (GCS) score of 3. There was no history of seizures or vomiting.

Keywords

CCF - head injury - posttraumatic pulsating proptosis - posttraumatic carotid cavernous fistula - proptosis


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Article published online:
23 September 2020

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