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Ascending pharyngeal artery-internal jugular vein fistula complicating radical neck dissection
J C Chaloupka1, M B Kibble, J C Hoffman
1Department of Radiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
Neuroradiology
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Arteriovenous fistulae of the ascending pharyngeal artery (AP) and internal jugular vein (IJ) are rare. Only two spontaneous AP-IJ fistulae have been described previously, both of which presented with pulsatile tinnitus. A unique case of an AP-IJ fistula developing after radical neck dissection is described in which the clinical presentation was identical to that of a carotid-cavernous fistula.