Talk:External carotid artery
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My 'carotid artery' was blocked (by an internal disection)in a one-off accident, and it plainly puzzled the specialists - apparently so few people survive such incidents without a stroke or death that there is not enough empirical evidence to establish a reliable prognosis. The symptom that betrayed the damage, two weeks after it happened, was a pronounced, classic 'Horner's Syndrome' - the nerve to the eye is contiguous with the carotid, and and so evidence of damage to one signals damage to the other: my eyelid drooped, and my iris was distended. Anyway, the specialists concluded that my surviving the incident unscathed at the age of 54 was evidence that my vascular system was in excellent condition, and I shouldn't worry about it! But some more information on here would be nice, especially for people (or their families) who are not so lucky as I was. John Wigham, 19:10, 27 August 2006 (UTC)80.227.38.223Dubai.
