title: Survival of a patient with endopharyngeal common carotid blow out due to parapharyngeal abscess as an unusual complication of cholesteatoma.
abstract: Parapharyngeal abscess as a complication of cholesteatoma is an uncommon entity. Endopharyngeal common carotid artery rupture due to parapharyngeal abscess is also uncommon, and these cases usually end fatally. We present a 17-year-old male with parapharyngeal abscess due to cholesteatoma who developed an endopharyngeal common carotid blow out and survived after common carotid ligation without any neurological sequalae.
authors.affiliation: Department of ENT & Head and Neck Surgery, M.L.N. Medical College, Allahabad, U.P., India.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bandyopadhyay
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mohindra
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Mishra
mesh_terms: D000038:Abscess / Q000150:complications*; D000293:Adolescent; D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D017536:Carotid Artery, Common / Q000601:surgery; D002781:Cholesteatoma / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008297:Male; D010608:Pharyngeal Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color