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E G Southwick

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PubMed1998

Aneurysms of the superficial temporal artery: literature review and case reports.

Superficial temporal artery (STA) aneurysms are a medical rarity. There are less than 200 patients reported in the literature. The majority of cases are of traumatic etiology and occur in young men. The senior authors reported a case of STA aneurysm in 1978. We now review the literature and report on three additional patients with STA aneurysm and a fourth patient with a temporal lipoma that was diagnosed initially as an aneurysm. This is the first report of a preoperative diagnosis of STA aneurysm that subsequently proved incorrect.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1978

Aneurysm of the superficial temporal artery.

An aneurysm of the superficial temporal artery is a rare lesion, which should be suspected after blunt trauma to the forehead that is followed by the appearance of a pulsatile cystic lesion in the region of the superficial temporal artery. Treatment by excision of the aneurysm with ligation of the afferent and efferent arteries is curative. As this lesion may be mistaken clinically for an epidermal inclusion cyst, aneurysm should be included in the differential diagnosis prior to therapy.

Adolescent↗