Unilateral congenital elongation of the cervical part of the internal carotid artery with kinking and looping: Two case reports and review of the literature

Head and Face Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Ovchinnikov, Nikolai A ^a   Rao, Ramesh T ^a   Rao, Suresh R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

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EID: 36048937233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1746160X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-160X-3-29     Document Type: Article

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