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Repair of common carotid artery injury with an external carotid artery flap.

Vascular Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Teaching Hospital, Kuwait University.
Medical Principles and Practice (impact factor: 0.89). 13(5):292-4. DOI:10.1159/000079531 pp.292-4
Source: PubMed

ABSTRACT To describe a new technique to repair injuries of the common carotid artery.
A 30-year-old man sustained an iatrogenic injury to the left common carotid artery during surgical dissection of a left branchial cyst. The artery was repaired as follows: the left external carotid artery was ligated distally, its stump was longitudinally opened to create an arterial flap, which was then used to repair the defect in the common carotid artery. The patient remained free of any symptoms throughout 1 year of follow-up.
Use of an external carotid flap provides an alternative method of repairing an injured carotid artery.

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Keywords

1 year
 
30-year-old man
 
arterial flap
 
common carotid artery
 
external carotid flap
 
follow-up
 
free
 
iatrogenic injury
 
left branchial cyst
 
left common carotid artery
 
stump
 
surgical dissection