%0 Journal Article
%T Successful surgical treatment of a patient with combined gunshot shrapnel injuries in the heart and brain complicated by middle cerebral artery pseudoaneurysm
%A Andrii Sirko
%A Dmytro Romanukha
%A Ihor Kyrpa
%A Illya Plyushchev
%A Mykola Zorin
%A Vasyl Lazorishinets
%A Yuri Cherednychenko
%J Archive of "Trauma Case Reports".
%D 2018
%R 10.1016/j.tcr.2018.11.001
%X Successful step-by-step treatment of a combined gunshot shrapnel injury of the brain, damaging the left middle cerebral artery (MCA) branches, and penetrating myocardium injury is discussed. Open brain and heart surgeries were performed. A left MCA pseudoaneurysm was formed postoperatively. Endovascular exclusion of the left MCA pseudoaneurysm was performed using detachable micro coils. Finally, plastic reconstruction of the posttraumatic cranial vault defect was performed using a dynamic titanium plate
%K Gunshot wound
%K Craniocerebral shrapnel injury
%K Shrapnel injury of the heart
%K False aneurysm
%K Dissectional aneurysm
%K Middle cerebral artery
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6258127/