The Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Arising from the Internal Carotid Artery Directly: A Variant of the Persistent Primitive Hypoglossal Artery

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 253-257

  Nakanishi, Naruhiko ^a   Sugino, Toshiyuki ^b   Morikawa, Kazutoshi ^b   Ohkawa, Naosumi ^b   Fukusumi, Akio ^a  

^a HOSHIGAOKA KOSEINENKIN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Carotid angiography; MR angiography; Posterior inferior cerebellar artery; Variant of persistent primitive hypoglossal artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; BASILAR ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 1942486350     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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