Urgent treatment of spontaneous carotid artery pseudoaneurysm with covered stent graft: A case report

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Pseudoaneurysms usually occur due to blunt trauma to the atherosclerotic vessels. The main pathophysiology is the disruption of the vesselwall and subsequent collection of the blood under adventitia and surrounding tissues. The localization of the lesion is determinant for theseverity of the clinical presentation. Herein, we present a 64-year-old male case in whom Doppler ultrasound revealed a carotid arterypseudoaneurysm treated with endovascular method using a covered stent graft.