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A 50-year-old man, who attempted suicide by hanging, presented with upper airway lesion and cervical subcutaneous emphysema. Brain CT was unremarkable. CT angiography of the neck and subsequent catheter angiography of the carotid arteries showed the following:
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Guerreiro, C., Tavares, J., Reimão, S. (2018). Case 33. In: Xavier, J., Vasconcelos, C., Ramos, C. (eds) Diagnostic and Therapeutic Neuroradiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61140-2_33
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