Surgical treatment of an extracranial carotid artery aneurysm in a child by an arterial autograft

Abstract

We report a symptomatic aneurysm of the left common carotid artery (LCCA) in a 6-year-old boy. The patient had been diagnosed and treated 3 years earlier for an isolation of the LCCA with a right-sided aortic arch. At the age of 3 years, the LCCA was reimplanted in the ascending aorta. Three years later, the patient developed a voluminous aneurysm of the LCCA complicated by stroke. An arterial graft was used for the carotid reconstruction with good long-term patency and no aneurysm evolution.

Keywords: Aneurysm; Arterial autograft; Carotid; Child; Symptomatic.