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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
Abstract
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.
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