Background: There are few reports on the treatment of carotid artery stenosis after arterial vessel replacement. We report and discuss an illustrative case of carotid artery stenting (CAS) performed for stenosis after carotid artery replacement.
Case Description: A woman in her 20s experienced injury to the right carotid artery during an operation for removal of a carotid body tumor 6 years before presentation.
The pathogenesis of new visual symptoms after flow diverter stent placement in the ophthalmic artery for internal carotid artery aneurysms remains unclear. We report two cases of patients who developed visual field disturbance and decreased visual acuity following flow diverter placement. The "doughnut sign" was found around the optic nerve on magnetic resonance imaging.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDental records play an important role in forensic identification. To this end, postmortem dental findings and teeth conditions are recorded in a dental chart and compared with those of antemortem records. However, most dentists are inexperienced at recording the dental chart for corpses, and it is a physically and mentally laborious task, especially in large scale disasters.
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