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| Year : 2019 | Volume
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A dreadful complication of peritonsillar abscess drainage managed endovascularly
Apratim Chatterjee, Anshu Mahajan, Vinit Banga, Gaurav Goel
Department of Neurointervention, Medanta, Medicity, Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Gaurav Goel
Medanta, Medicity, Gurgaon, Haryana
India
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DOI: 10.4103/aiao.aiao_25_19
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A 11 year female presenting with sorethroat and diagnosed as peritonsillar abscess ,drained outside under aseptic precautions lead to bleeding, later presented with hemiparesis with DSA revealing a large pseudoaneurysm formation in ipsilateral carotid with patchy infarcts on CT. At emergency repeat bleeding occurred and patient started deteriorating following which the patient was managed by endovascular parent vessel occlusion following which she recovered gradually with regaining normal strength in paretic limbs within a few days . The case highlights the dreadful complication of peritonsillar abscess drainage as well as its endovascular management.
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