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Survival of a patient with endopharyngeal common carotid blow out due to parapharyngeal abscess as an unusual complication of cholesteatoma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2006

M Singh
Affiliation:
Anaesthesiology, M.L.N. Medical College, Allahabad, U.P., India.
S Bandyopadhyay
Affiliation:
Anaesthesiology, M.L.N. Medical College, Allahabad, U.P., India.
N Mohindra
Affiliation:
the Departments of ENT & Head and Neck Surgery, Allahabad, U.P., India.
L S Mishra
Affiliation:
the Kriti Scanning Centre, Allahabad, U.P., India.
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Abstract

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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.

Type
Research Article
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© 2005 Royal Society of Medicine Press