Intracranial pellet embolization: an endovascular endeavor.


Journal

BMJ case reports
ISSN: 1757-790X
Titre abrégé: BMJ Case Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101526291

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
31 Dec 2019
Historique:
entrez: 2 1 2020
pubmed: 2 1 2020
medline: 20 5 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

A 44-year-old man was referred to the neurointerventionalist 6 hours after sustaining a shotgun wound to the left chest, shoulder, and neck from 4 feet away. Physical examination of the chest showed a 5 cm × 5 cm gunshot entry wound on the anterior-superior aspect of the chest involving the supraclavicular and infraclavicular region, with multiple gunshot pellet entry sites riddled in the surrounding vicinity. The patient was taken for a CT scan of the brain without contrast and CT angiography, which showed no sign of stroke or intracranial hemorrhage but revealed a single 'buckshot' pellet embolizing the basilar artery tip, occluding the origin of the left posterior cerebral artery. Using A Direct Aspiration First Pass Technique (ADAPT), the neurointerventinalist was able to endovascularly remove the embolized pellet and the patient was discharged 8 days later with no focal neurological deficit.

Identifiants

pubmed: 31892630
pii: 12/12/e015301
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2019-015301
pmc: PMC6954796
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Case Reports Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Informations de copyright

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Competing interests: None declared.

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Auteurs

Ameer E Hassan (AE)

Clinical Research Department, Valley Baptist Medical Center - Harlingen, Harlingen, Texas, USA ameerehassan@gmail.com.
Department of Neurology, UTRGV School of Medicine, Edinburg, Texas, USA.

Rani Ramsey Rabah (RR)

Clinical Research Department, Valley Baptist Medical Center - Harlingen, Harlingen, Texas, USA.

Wondwossen Tekle (W)

Clinical Research Department, Valley Baptist Medical Center - Harlingen, Harlingen, Texas, USA.
Department of Neurology, UTRGV School of Medicine, Edinburg, Texas, USA.

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