Persistent Primitive Trigeminal Artery Imaged by Three-Dimensional Computed Tomography Angiography —Two Case Reports—

Neurologia medico-chirurgica

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 748-751

  Suzuki, Yasuhiro ^a   Kunii, Norihiko ^b   Matsumoto, Kiyoshi ^b  

^a Showa University   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

persistent primitive trigeminal artery; persistent primitive trigeminal artery variant; three dimensional computed tomography angiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRIGEMINUS ARTERY;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032748407     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.39.748     Document Type: Article

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