Tortuous internal carotid artery presenting as a pulsatile hypopharyngeal mass

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 316-317

  Lin, Deng Shan ^a   Lin, Yaoh Shiang ^a   Lee, Jih Chin ^a  

^a TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTERY MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX TUMOR; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 47549085917     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2008.04.029     Document Type: Article

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