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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998;14:437-439
© 1998 Elsevier Science NL

Case report

Cervical aortic arch with aneurysm formation

Department of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery, Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, 06100 Ankara, Turkey

Received 9 February 1998; received in revised form 29 June 1998; accepted 7 July 1998.

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Cervical aortic arch is a very rare anomaly presented as a pulsatile mass on the neck and usually with symptoms of dysphagia, cough and hoarseness. Rarer than the cervical aortic arch, is the aneurysm formation and, despite the equal sex distribution of cervical aortic arch, aneurysm formation always occurs in young females with only nine cases reported. We report herein a 24-year-old woman, diagnosed as cervical aortic arch with aneurysm formation due to basophilic degeneration, treated successfully with surgical intervention. To our knowledge no similar case has been reported.

Key Words: Aorta • Cervical aortic arch • Aneurysm formation