KROK 1 2009 – Question 90 · KROK (Medicine) · Human Anatomy
A patient has a massive haemorrhage caused by damage of the dorsal lingual artery by cancer of tongue back. What vessel should be ligated for the haemorrhage arrest?
- A. Lingual artery
- B. Deep artery of tongue
- C. Dorsal lingual artery
- D. Facial artery
- E. Ascending pharyngeal artery
Hint
Ask which parent trunk gives off the damaged branch, and where it can be tied proximal to the injury so that no blood reaches the bleeding vessel.
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