Bilateral persistent trigeminal arteries, one of them ending in the posterior inferior cerebellar artery: Case report and review of the literature

Clinical Neuroradiology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 95-99

  Meila, D ^a   Papke, K ^b   Schlunz Hendann, M ^a   Mangold, A ^a   Jacobs, C ^c   Brassel, F ^a  

^a Klinikum Duisburg   (Germany)

^b ST BONIFATIUS HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERY ANEURYSM; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIPLOPIA; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MYDRIASIS; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; PTOSIS; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINUS ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; BASILAR ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; OCULOMOTOR NERVE DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 80054891698     PISSN: 09397116     EISSN: 16156706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00062-010-0047-0     Document Type: Review

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