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Anales de Otorrinolaringología Mexicana

2023, Number 2

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Otorrinolaringología 2023; 68 (2)

Aberrant internal carotid artery, kissing carotids

Rivacoba-Ibarra MÁ, Gamboa-Baca JM, Trinidad-Guerrero D, González-Galindo T

Language: Spanish
References: 7
Page: 86-90
PDF size: 339.39 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Background: The internal carotid artery offers great part of the irrigation to the brain, in which any disturbance on its structure could have significant consequences. The aberrant internal carotid artery in its cervical portion has a considerable low incidence and prevalence (0.2%); it might be due to congenital alteration or acquired degenerative changes of the artery itself.
Clinical case: A 60-year-old female patient who was studied of tonsillar asymmetry finding in the computed tomography bilateral aberrant internal carotid artery towards the midline in the retropharyngeal space at the oropharynx.
Conclusions: Aberrant internal carotid artery have different presentations. Riskbenefit relation must be weighted before pharyngeal surgical procedures since there is a probability of injury in it.


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