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Between January 1977 and December 1990, eight patients underwent surgical correction of aneurysms of the extracranial internal carotid artery due to fibromuscular dysplasia. Mean age of patients was 50 years (range 31 to 70 years). Five patients presented with neurologic hemispheric symptoms. Most aneurysms were saccular and occurred preferentially at the level of C2 or C3. All of these patients underwent operation through conventional cervicotomy. Resection-anastomosis was performed in three cases whereas resection-graft was performed in five. Histopathological examination of the eight specimens was consistent with fibromuscular dysplasia of the media. There was no central nervous system-related mortality and morbidity. Seven patients were alive and free of new neurological manifestations at mean follow-up of 156 months (18 to 180 months). One patient died of myocardial infarction at 96 months. All patients had postoperative duplex scanning or arteriograms. These revealed that carotid restorations were patent in seven whereas one patient had asymptomatic occlusion at 18 months.
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Bour, P., Taghavi, I., Bracard, S. et al. Aneurysms of the extracranial internal carotid artery due to fibromuscular dysplasia: Results of surgical management. Annals of Vascular Surgery 6, 205–208 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02000264
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