Dual origin extracranial vertebral artery: Case report and embryology

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 173-176

  Thomas, Ajith J ^a   Germanwala, Anand V ^b   Vora, Nirav ^b   Prevedello, Daniel M ^b   Jovin, Tudor ^b   Kassam, Amin ^b   Horowitz, Michael ^b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Neurosurgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Embryology; Origin duplication; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEUROANATOMY; RARE DISEASE; STENT; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DUPLICATION;

ANEURYSM; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 41549148262     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2007.00182.x     Document Type: Article

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