New daily persistent headache - rare primary or secondary phenomena caused by carotid-cavernous fistula? A case report

• Authors: Srdjan Ljubisavljevic , Dragan Stojanov , Mirjana Spasic , Miroslava Zivkovic
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Carotid cavernous fistulas (CCF) are dural arteriovenous fistulas which include pathological communications between the arterial system and the venous cavernous sinus situated at the wall of the cavernous sinus. It can be demonstrated by wide range clinical presentations. The presented case shows a very modest clinical presentation of CCF which was present over a few months only as new daily persistent headache without initial positive findings on performed computer tomography of the head, but rapidly worsened over a period of few days.

Keywords

EN

Carotid cavernous fistula; New daily persistent headache

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Medicine
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 302-305

Dates

published

1 - 4 - 2014

online

13 - 2 - 2014

Contributors

author

Srdjan Ljubisavljevic

author

Dragan Stojanov

author

Mirjana Spasic

author

Miroslava Zivkovic

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11536-013-0267-1