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Exam questionKROK 1Medicine ยท 2009

A patient has a massive hemorrhage caused by damage of the dorsal lingual artery by cancer of tongue back. What vessel should be ligated for the hemorrhage arrest?

Answer options

  1. Dorsal lingual artery
  2. Facial artery
  3. Lingual artery
  4. Deep artery of tongue
  5. Ascending pharyngeal artery
Correct answer

Lingual artery

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