Two anatomical autopsy cases of direct communication between a persistent primitive trigeminal artery and an anterior inferior cerebellar artery

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 189, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 489-498

  Arakawa, Takamitsu ^a   Koizumi, Masahiro ^b   Terashima, Toshio ^a   Honma, Satoru ^b   Kawai, Katsushi ^b   Kodama, Kodo ^b   Miki, Akinori ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basilar artery; Carotid basilar anastomosis; Gross anatomy; Human; Internal carotid artery; Persistent primitive trigeminal artery

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NERVE; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; CADAVER; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MORPHOLOGY; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINUS ARTERY;

EID: 34547751778     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aanat.2006.11.012     Document Type: Article

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