title: Tortuous common carotid artery encountered during neck dissection.
abstract: Anomalies of the carotid artery are rare in clinical experience. To our knowledge a tortuous common carotid artery with an abnormal course encountered during neck dissection has never been reported in the available world literature. During dissection of the lower neck in a 60-year-old Korean man, a tortuous right common carotid artery was found to cross over the lower cervical trachea anteriorly and then was positioned in its usual site in the carotid sheath in the mid-neck.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: J O
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Choi
mesh_terms: D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000601:surgery; D017536:Carotid Artery, Common / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009333:Neck / Q000098:blood supply / Q000601:surgery; D014132:Trachea / Q000473:pathology