Carotid-cavernous sinus fistulae are rare, but serious, vascular anomalies which may develop following traumatic injury to the skull base. Fractures or the shearing forces of severe head trauma ...

We are indebted to a small bunch of nerves, the carotid sinus, in the wall of the carotid arteries to the brain. It can be readily detected by feeling for a pulsation on either side of the neck.