A Case of the Traumatic Maxillary Artery Aneurysms Caused by the Mandibular Fracture

Abstract

We report a case of traumatic maxillary artery aneurysm caused by mandibular fracture.
The patient was an 86-year-old woman. She fell down and bruised her face on the ground. She had mandibular fractures in the bilateral condyles. Two days after the injury, she developed swelling and an enlarged hemorrhagic spot on the lower left jaw. CT showed a pseudo-aneurysm at the bifurcation of the maxillary artery and inferior alveolar artery inside the left mandibular ramus fracture. Trans-catheter embolization for the traumatic aneurysm was performed prior to our fracture surgery.