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Surgical Correction of Elongated Internal Carotid Artery

Department of Vascular and Thoracic Surgery of "Heidehaus" Municipal Hospital of Hannover, Germany

Dusan Dragojevic

Department of Vascular and Thoracic Surgery of "Heidehaus" Municipal Hospital of Hannover, Germany

The authors present the results of surgical correction of kinking and coiling of internal carotid in 63 patients who underwent 68 procedures; 51 patients (53 procedures) had kinking of the artery and 12 (15 procedures) had coiling. There were 2 intraoperative or postoperative deaths (2.9%) and 1 permanent cerebral ischemic event (1.5%). In 3 cases (4.4%) there was paresis of the ipsilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve with complete remission within six weeks. These results indicate that surgical correction is the treatment of choice for these anatomic lesions.

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Vol. 28, No. 2, 85-90 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/153857449402800201


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