title: External jugular venous aneurysm: A clinical curiosity.
abstract: Jugular venous aneurysm is an extremely rare condition. The patients presented with a painless swelling in the neck that appears while coughing, straining, bending, or breath holding. Detection of a soft and compressible swelling in the course of an external jugular vein (EJV) superficial to the sternomastoid muscle, non-filling on compression of the EJV during Valsalva maneuver clinches the diagnosis of EJV aneurysm. Color Doppler ultrasound allows precise delineation of the lesion and is considered the gold standard for confirming the diagnosis. Surgical excision is indicated mostly for cosmetic reasons and symptomatic aneurysms. We, herein, report a patient with saccular external jugular venous aneurysm to highlight the typical clinical presentation and diagnosis of this rare entity.
authors: Department of Surgery, University College of Medical Sciences and Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
authors: Debajyoti
authors: D
authors: Mohanty
authors: Bhupendra Kumar
authors: BK
authors: Jain
authors: Pankaj Kumar
authors: PK
authors: Garg
authors: Anupama
authors: A
authors: Tandon
keywords: Aneurysm; external jugular vein; ultrasound
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