In Boston, a six-year-old boy tumbled off a porch into a rosebush, was rushed to a hospital. There Surgeon Richard H. Miller probed a hole in the boy's jaw, found the broken end of a rose cane, ...

The carotid artery may hurt for various reasons, such as carotidynia, an inflammatory condition, or carotid artery dissection. A person may also have an injury to the neck, such as whiplash.

The jugular vein and carotid artery are specifically important since they are responsible for seamless flow of oxygen rich blood from the heart to the brain. Hence damage to any of them can cause ...

Carotid - Cavernous Sinus Fistula: Internal Carotid Artery Angiogram, lateral view, three sequential images. Note the early opacification of the internal carotid artery. When the contrast reaches the ...

To locate the neck veins, begin by evaluating the right side of the neck. The right jugular veins have a more direct course to the heart than the left jugular veins. Raise the head of the bed to ...

Although endocrinologists are obligated to report and evaluate an abnormal node in the neck detected during a thyroid ultrasound, what should we do if we see obvious carotid artery narrowing or ...

Postnatal d 7 (p7) or p12 mice had their right carotid artery (CA) and jugular vein (JV) ligated to mimic veno-arterial (VA) access for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). At p9–11 ...