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Institution: Royal Perth Hospital - Western Australia, Australia
Purpose:
This review aims to present a case of traumatic STAA and provide a concise review of epidemiology, diagnostic options, and management considerations.
Methodology:
Case report data was compiled using documentation from DMR, imaging and histopathological reports. Databases searches were carried out using Embase and Scopus, and tabulated manually.
Results:
This paper presents a case of a 64-year-old male who developed a right-sided painless pulsatile forehead mass 3 days post high-speed motor vehicle crash. Diagnosis was confirmed with CTA imaging. The patient underwent subsequent resection, with histopathology confirming disruption of the elastic lamina and focally organising luminal thrombus suggestive of traumatic pseudoaneurysm. The patient recovered well and suffered no short-term complications. A literature review highlighted the scarcity of data on this topic, with the majority consisting of case reports or small case series.
Conclusions:
Traumatic temporal artery aneurysm is a rare complication of blunt head trauma, occurring in well under 1% of cases. This paper highlights the need for clinical suspicion of STAA in the context of pulsatile head mass in the trauma patient. It underlines the role of diagnostic imaging, histopathological diagnosis, and surgical resection.
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Dr Cormac Mulhall - , Dr Gabriel Plitzko - , Dr Martin Jarmin - , Dr Sana Nasim -
