Carnevale Matthew L, P. John, Trestman Eric B, Dickinson Gregory, Vitti Michael J
{"title":"Superficial Temporal Artery Pseudoaneurysm Following a Traumatic Haircut","authors":"Carnevale Matthew L, P. John, Trestman Eric B, Dickinson Gregory, Vitti Michael J","doi":"10.23937/iavm-2017/1710001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23937/iavm-2017/1710001","url":null,"abstract":"Superficial temporal artery pseudoaneurysms are well known to occur following blunt trauma to the forehead, but their manifestation after penetrating trauma is considerably less often reported. A middle-aged male presented with a pulsatile mass on his forehead that had been growing slowly. He reports being accidentally cut by his barber in that location 2-3 months prior. This was determined to be a superficial temporal artery aneurysm by physical diagnosis. The aneurysm was surgically resected, and the patient recovered uneventfully. Owing to their relative exposure compared to other arteries, the superficial temporal artery is particularly at risk of pseudoaneurysm formation secondary to trauma. These lesions can be successfully treated with simple ligation and excision. to cause aneurysms but penetrating trauma as a cause of superficial temporal artery aneurysms has not been well documented in the literature. Here we present a patient who developed an aneurysm after a penetrating injury to the scalp.","PeriodicalId":311585,"journal":{"name":"International Archives of Vascular Medicine","volume":"816 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131183033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}