“…In 1933 Hamby and Gardner's publication ‘Treatment of pulsating exophthalmus with report of two cases,’
5 incorrectly cites Brooks as the first person to perform muscle embolization of CCSF. In describing the fourth principle of the treatment of the CCSF, direct closure of the fistula, they recount the method of occlusion that ‘has been devised by Brooks of Nashville.’ Hamby and Gardner continue:
Brooks opened the internal carotid artery in the neck, between clamps, and packed long, thin strips of muscle into the artery.
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