Figure 9: Laceration of the left-sided internal carotid a. as a complication of routine paranasal sinus surgery.
a. Angiogram of the internal carotid artery revealing a lesion located at the anterior bending (anterior ‘genu’).
b. Occlusion of the artery by coils.
c. Revision surgery of the respective sphenoid sinus revealing a partly exposed coil (green arrow: coil; white arrow: suction device).
d. Post-treatment axial CT scan depicting the coils.