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The aim of the paper is the presentation of the treatment of aneurysms of the extracranial carotid artery and review of literature. Aneurysms of extracranial carotid arteries (common carotid artery, external carotid artery and cervical part of the internal carotid artery) are very rate [1, 2]. In 1979 McCollum from the Baylor University (Houston, Texas) reported 37 cases over a 21-year period [3]. ⋯ However, true extracranial carotid artery aneurysms can be developed due to: infection of the arterial wall (mycotic forms) [26-37]; nonspecific [23] or irradiation arteritis [38], fibromuscular dysplasia [4, 8, 15, 16, 39]. The most frequent types of false extracranial carotid artery aneurysms are traumatic pseudoaneurysms [32, 50-54] and anastomotic pseudoaneurysms [53, 59, 60]. There are also dissecting extracranial carotid artery aneurysms developed after isolated spontaneous d