title: Tortuosity of the internal carotid artery detected during tonsillectomy: two case reports.
abstract: Tonsillectomy is one of the most common performed surgical procedures in childhood. Tortuosity of the internal carotid artery (ICA) is an anatomical variation of the course of the ICA, and can be seen at any levels along the course of the artery, even in lateral oropharyngeal wall. In this article, we present two cases in which ICA tortuosity detected as a pulsating mass in the lateral oropharyngeal wall in an eight-year and a five-year-old girls, during tonsillectomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Medicine Faculty of Gaziosmanpaşa University, 60150 Tokat, Turkey. gurbuzler@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Levent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gürbüzler
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Eyibilen
authors.forename: Ibrahim
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Aladağ
mesh_terms: D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014068:Tonsillectomy