Anomalous Origin and Cervical Course of the Vertebral Artery in the Presence of a Retroesophageal Right Subclavian Artery

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 354-357

  Sassoli Fazan, Valéria Paula ^a   Gonçalves Caetano, Abadio ^b   Rodrigues Filho, Omar Andrade ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b School of Medicine of Triangulo Mineiro   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Abnormal origin; Aortic arch; Surgical anatomy; Variations; Vascular anatomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

AORTA, THORACIC; CADAVER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; VARIATION (GENETICS); VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 2342511454     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.10197     Document Type: Article

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