Table 2.

Details of patients with specific injured major vessels or nerves in the face or neck

Patient	Demographics	Method and site of injury	Operative findings	Management
1	M 29	Knife into right side of face penetrating through right maxillary sinus	Knife lodged into close proximity to the right internal carotid artery	Hyper glide balloon placed across tip of knife using cerebral angiogram guide. Knife removed and no carotid artery abnormality, balloon removed
2	M 19	Glassed to left cheek	Facial nerve sectioned (no further details)	Facial nerve repair, toilet and suture and parotid duct exploration—no injury
3 (same as patient 2 Table 1)	M 35	A 2-cm knife injury producing right pre-auricular region and small scalp incision	Right external carotid, superficial temporal and maxillary arteries cut, right retromandibular vein cut	Vessels tied off
4	M 35	Knife injury to right frontal region	Damaged temporal branch CNVII	Too anterior for repair. Cleaned & closed
5 (same as patient 9 Table 1)	M 24	Glass injury to right temple	Right superficial temporal artery cut	Tied off
6 (same as patient 17 Table 1)	M 29	Knife injury to left temple	Left superficial temporal artery cut	Tied off
7	M 24	Unknown weapon, 12- inch cut to left face	Left superficial temporal artery cut	Tied off
8	M 20	Glass injury to left cheek	Buccal branch CNVII and parotid duct incised	Both repaired
9	M 19	Broken glass injury to left cheek/upper lip	Unspecified arterial bleed	Tied off
10 (same as patient 10 Table 1)	M 45	Knife injury, through and through left commissure	Branches of facial artery and tributaries of facial vein in left commissure region cut	Tied off/bipolar haemostasis
11 (same as patient 3 Table 1)	M 27	Knife	Left neck incision with brachial plexus injury (not noted at initial operation—repaired at second GA later)	Brachial plexus primary repair during second GA
12	M 33	Unknown weapon, injury to left neck	Submandibular gland excised, through and through to valleculae. Facial artery and external jugular vein damaged	Facial artery and external jugular vein tied off
13	F 17	Knife injury to left neck	Incision to submandibular gland, facial vein & marginal mandibular branch facial nerve cut	Removal of left submandibular gland. Left marginal mandibular branch facial nerve repaired. Facial vein tied off
14	M 35	Unknown weapon, injury to right neck	Great auricular nerve severed	Cleaned and closed wound
15 (same as patient 18 in Table 1)	M 28	Knife, 9 incisions to both sides face and left neck	Left side—transected omohyoid, incision into thyroid gland	Cleaned and closed
16 (same as patient 19 in Table 1)	F 33	Multiple knife incisions to right neck	Right internal jugular vein and facial artery cut, digastric separated	Right internal jugular vein and facial artery tied off, digastric repaired
17	M 47	Knife injury to right neck	Incision into lac into right submandibular gland, suprahyoid muscle, AJV cut	Anterior jugular vein tied off
18	M 28	Unknown weapon injury to left neck	Fifty percent anterior circumferential damage left internal jugular vein	Internal jugular vein tied off
19	M 37	Unknown weapon injury to left neck	External jugular vein cut	External jugular vein tied off
20 (same as patient 11 in Table 1)	M 38	Knife injury to left neck	Through and through cut left common carotid and internal carotid	Patch repair
21 (same as patient 1 in Table 1)	M 48	Axe injury to right neck and right face	Facial artery cut	Facial artery tied off
22	M 38	Knife to left neck and house set on fire	Left internal jugular vein transected	Internal jugular vein tied off