Idiopathic inflammatory pseudotumor of the carotid sheath Pseudotumor inflamatório idiopático da bainha carotídea

We present a biopsy proven case of 47 years-old man with a carotid pseudotumor, clinically presented as carotidynia. CT showed a mass encasing and narrowing the common carotid artery and MRI showed hypointense signal in T2 and intense enhancement after contrast media administration. The patient was...

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Published in:	Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
Main Authors:	Luciano Farage, Ana Carolina B.S. da Motta, David Goldenberg, Nafi Aygun, David M. Yousem
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Thieme Revinter Publicações 2007-12-01
Subjects:	massa carotídea pseudotumor inflamatório carotidinia carotid mass inflammatory pseudotumor carotidynia
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2007000700030