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• If the abscess is located in the distal part of the tonsil, puncture of the carotid artery can occur.
• Hypothermia may render the carotid pulse impalpable, but it is important not to start chest compression without evidence of cardiac arrest.
• It communicates with the oculomotor, the trochlear, the ophthalmic and the abducent nerves, and with the ciliary ganglion, and distributes filaments to the wall of the internal carotid artery. IX. Neurology. 7a. The Cephalic Portion of the Sympathetic System
• Two surgical incisions are used in carotid artery endarterectomies.
• Strangles place direct pressure on both the carotid and vertebral arteries.
• The main trunk of the stapedial artery atrophies and its origin from the internal carotid disappears.
• Researchers randomly assigned 3,120 pre-symptomatic patients from 30 countries to receive carotid endarterectomy either as soon as possible or not until symptoms appeared. Why You Forget Birthdays
• The bullet passed from right to left markedly upwards and forwards, enters the right abdominal cavity where it transfixes and mutilates the right kidney, transfixes the right lobe of the liver, transfixes diaphragm, transfixes the lower lobe of the left lung, transfixes sibson fascia on the left, lacerates the left common carotid artery and emerges through wound no. 'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
• Caveat: For patients older than 75, carotid endarterectomy didn't significantly reduce stroke risk. Why You Forget Birthdays
• It becomes as necessary, therefore, in the performance of surgical operations upon the subclavian artery, to fix the clavicle by depressing it, as in Plate 8, as it is to give fixity to the lower maxilla and larynx, in the position of Plate 7, when the carotid is the subject of operation. Surgical Anatomy