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Buckling of the Great VesselsA Clinical and Angiocardiographic Study
IRENE HSU, M.D.;
ALBERT D. KISTIN, M.D.
AMA Arch Intern Med. 1956;98(6):712-719.
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More than a century ago, Coulson 1 reported the case of an 82-year-old woman "who for some years before her death had a pulsatile tumor, of the size of an orange, just above the right clavicle, in the situation of the carotid. The swelling had not of late increased in size and caused no inconvenience; the woman died from natural decay." This mass, which was considered to be an aneurysm, was shown at postmortem examination to be a tortuous right common carotid artery.
Since then some 117 cases of kinked right common carotid or innominate artery or both have appeared in the literature with thorough reviews by Parkinson2 and co-workers and Deterling.3 Buckling of the internal carotid artery, however, appears to have been practically forgotten; Kelly 4 had stressed its benign nature in 1924.
In the present report we wish to call attention to several aspects of buckling
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Author Affiliations
Washington, D. C.
From the Department of Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication March 15, 1956.
Supported in part by a grant from the National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
Fellow in Cardiology, The George Washington University School of Medicine (Dr. Hsu); Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine, and Chief of Medicine, Beckley Memorial Hospital, Beckley W. Va. (Dr. Kistin).
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