[Rupture of the internal carotid artery following blunt cranio-cerebral trauma].

Report on an 18-year-old patient who died 6 hours after a blunt cerebro-cranial trauma due to a hemorrhage from the intracranial extradural part of the internal carotid artery. Autopsy revealed multiple fractures of the cranial basis, hemorrhages due to brain contusion and hemorrhages of the pons as well as a rupture of the wall of the right internal carotid artery within the fractured carotid canal.