Carotid-artery ligation in surgery of the head and neck

Abstract

IGATION of the common or internal carotid artery is a procedure that may have serious and often iatal sequelae.The pathological physiology of these sequelae has not been lully understood nor have reliable safeguards for prevention bcen devised.The clinical material that forms the basis of this report consists of eighty-eight cases in which the common or internal carotid or both common and internal carotid arteries on one side were ligated during the years 1926 to 1952 inc1ush.e.Ligation