TABLE 3.

Complications of treatment

Surgery (n=14)

Superior oblique muscle paralysis

Numbness

Postoperative infection

Bleeding requiring blood transfusion

Hepatitis B from blood transfusion

Wound dehiscence in two patients

Failure to take skin graft

Neuroma

Hypertrophic scar

Embolization (n=27)

Lower facial palsy

Blindness (monocular visual loss)

Cerebral infarct causing hemiparesis

Preoperative embolization and surgery (n=6)

Numbness and palsy of frontalis muscle

Scalp flap infection and necrosis