Origin and course of the extracranial vertebral artery: CTA findings and embryologic considerations

Clinical Neuroradiology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 327-333

  Meila, D ^a,e   Tysiac, M ^a   Petersen, M ^a   Theisen, O ^a   Wetter, A ^b   Mangold, A ^a   Schlunz Hendann, M ^a   Papke, K ^c   Brassel, F ^a   Berenstein, A ^d  

^a Klinikum Duisburg   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c ST BONIFATIUS HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^d ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^e HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anatomy; CTA; Embryology; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; EXTRACRANIAL VERTEBRAL ARTERY; FEMALE; FORAMEN TRANSVERSARIUM; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DUPLICATION;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM; AORTA, THORACIC; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84875831217     PISSN: 18691439     EISSN: 18691447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00062-012-0171-0     Document Type: Article

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