Dysphagia Caused by Elongation and Tortuosity of the Common Carotid Artery
- 12 March 1964
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 270 (11), 572-574
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196403122701109
Abstract
BUCKLING of the major arteries in the neck and mediastinum was described during the last century by Coulson1 (1852) and by Balfour2 (1898), but not until the introduction of contrast angiography did this clinical entity become more widely recognized.3 Ouattlebaum and his associates4 recently indicted elongation and kinking of the internal carotid artery as a cause of transient stroke, although the anatomic abnormality may be found also in the absence of neurologic symptoms. On occasion other vascular malformations in this region, such as arterial aneurysms5 and anomalies of the aortic arch, may give rise to symptoms of dysphagia by externally . . .Keywords
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