ArticleForensic science, medicine, and pathology2015
A rare and lethal case of right common carotid pseudoaneurysm following whiplash trauma.
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- Shaken Adult Syndrome: Defining a New Traumatic Entity with an Evidence-Based Approach.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Traumatic Internal Carotid Artery Injuries: Do We Need a Screening Strategy? Literature Review, Case Report, and Forensic Evaluation.Current neuropharmacology · 2022Review
- Multi-phase post-mortem CT-angiography: a pathologic correlation study on cardiovascular sudden death.Journal of geriatric cardiology : JGC · 2016Article
- Delayed presentation of a carotid pseudoaneurysm following penetrating neck trauma.SAGE open medical case reports · 2016Article
- Fatal subarachnoid hemorrhage associated with internal carotid artery dissection resulting from whiplash trauma.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2015Article
- Postmortem-computed tomography and postmortem-computed tomography-angiography: a focused update.La Radiologia medica · 2015Review
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Abstract
Whiplash trauma from a car crash is one of the most common causes of neck injury, resulting in pain and dysfunction. We report on an unusual case of post-whiplash pseudoaneurysm of the right common carotid artery, which led to acute massive hemorrhage and death days after the initial trauma. A post-mortem computed tomography angiography showed rupture of the pseudoaneurysm of the right common carotid artery with the contrast agent leaking out into the mouth. The subsequent autopsy confirmed a large hemorrhagic clot extending to the right side of the neck and mediastinum. A rupture of the right wall of the oropharynx was identified with massive bronchial hemoaspiration. The case demonstrates a rare but lethal clinical entity, and is important in providing a better understanding of the potentially fatal consequences of minor trauma, such as whiplash injury, and its physiopathological mechanisms. Thus, changing symptoms after a whiplash injury should be carefully evaluated since they can be related to the underlying severe consequences of a rapid hyperextension-hyperflexion of the neck, as in the reported case.
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