Right common carotid artery crossing the midline neck anterior to the trachea: A cadaver case report

Head and Neck

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1253-1256

  Conoyer, Ben M ^a   Varvares, Mark A ^b   Cooper, Margaret H ^b,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aberrant; Common carotid artery (carotid); Midline; Neck; Trachea

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; CASE REPORT; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MEDIASTINUM; NECK DISSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEA;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADAVER; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; NECK DISSECTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; TRACHEA;

EID: 51949098792     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20765     Document Type: Article

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