Post traumatic psuedoaneurysm of the lingual artery

Post traumatic pseudoaneurysm is a well documented complication of vascular injuries which needs early diagnosis and early management otherwise there may be significant morbidity and mortality. We present a patient who had been operated elsewhere for a foreign body lodged in neck during splinter injury sustained while bursting a cracker. He presented to ENT department of our hospital with bleeding from the wound site. We are reporting this case because pseudoaneurysm of the lingual artery as such is very rare. We could not find any other reported case in available English literature. Moreover the treating ENT surgeons need to be sensitized to the presence of such an entity and hence avoid late complications.