Combined anomalous origin of a left inferior thyroid artery and a left vertebral artery: a case report

An abnormal origin of a left inferior thyroid artery from the left vertebral artery that in turn originated from the aortic arch was observed on a 72-year-old Caucasian male cadaver during a dissection anatomy practice. We describe in detail the morphology of this extremely rare anatomical variation...

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Autores principales: Natsis, Konstantinos, Didagelos, Matthaios, Noussios, Georgios, Adamopoulou, Aspasia, Nikolaidou, Elisavet, Paraskevas, Georgios
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740228/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829953
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-7400
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Sumario:An abnormal origin of a left inferior thyroid artery from the left vertebral artery that in turn originated from the aortic arch was observed on a 72-year-old Caucasian male cadaver during a dissection anatomy practice. We describe in detail the morphology of this extremely rare anatomical variation and refer to its clinical importance.

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