[A pulsatile mass on the forehead after a fall]

Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2019 May 24:163:D3835.
[Article in Dutch]

Abstract

A 84-year-old man presented with a pulsatile mass on the forehead 2 weeks after blunt head injury. Doppler ultrasonography showed a yin-yang sign. The man was diagnosed with a pseudoaneurysm of the left superficial temporal artery.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Accidental Falls
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Aneurysm, False / diagnosis*
  • Aneurysm, False / physiopathology
  • Forehead / physiopathology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Temporal Arteries / physiopathology*
  • Ultrasonography