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Medial Displacement of the Internal Carotid Artery as a Diagnostic Sign

DANELY P. SLAUGHTER, M.D.; FREDERIC A. de PEYSTER, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1949;59(3):386-397.

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FOUR patients with tumors of the upper cervical cranial nerves have been studied. All the lesions were neurilemmomas, 3 arising from the vagus nerve and 1 from the hypoglossal. All 4 cases presented a syndrome consisting of dysphagia due to pharyngeal compression and pulsation of the tumor due to medial displacement of the internal carotid artery. In addition, there was a paralysis of the vocal cord on the same side in 2 of the patients whose tumor arose from the vagus nerve. This triad of findings enabled us to make a clinical diagnosis of the lesion in the last 2 patients. The cases are being reported because, as far as we can ascertain, this syndrome has not previously been described.

The neurilemmoma is not a common tumor, but it is by no means rare. The importance of these lesions lies in the fact that, whereas they are benign encapsulated tumors . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Department of Surgery, University of Illinois, College of Medicine, the Illinois Research and Educational Hospitals, and the Presbyterian Hospital.

Footnotes
Read at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Central Surgical Association, Cleveland, Feb. 18, 1949.

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