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Medicina Legal de Costa Rica
versão On-line ISSN 2215-5287versão impressa ISSN 1409-0015
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LANG SERRANO, Gerardo. Fistulas carótido cavernosa. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2014, vol.31, n.1, pp.135-139. ISSN 2215-5287.
Carotid-cavernous fistulas are relatively uncommon vascular pathologies that have a traumatic etiology mostly spontaneous. Diagnosis is not always easy and requires knowledge of pathology to clinical suspicion and have to provide a solution quickly minimizing the consequences. The treatment of the fistulas has improved with the time and with the advent of the surgery endovascular, with this have been discovered and improved access mechanisms as is the boarding across the ophthalmic top vein. Nevertheless, this not always is possible due to the anatomical variations that in her they find, but when it is achieved, there are obtained cosmetic and functional very suitable results.
Palavras-chave : Carotid-cavernous fistulas; treatment; endovascular surgery; superior ophthalmic vein approach.