Persistent hypoglossal artery in association with advanced atherosclerosis.
The persistent hypoglossal artery is an anomaly of great interest which probably becomes clinically significant only when it is associated with occlusive cerebrovascular disease or some other life-threatening vascular abnormality such as intracranial aneurysm on the same side in the carotid-middle cerebral artery territory. In the case reported here it was apparently of no clinical importance in spite of associated atherosclerosis and thrombosis.
D000368:Aged; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000150:complications; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000150:complications; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000150:complications*; D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D002536:Cerebral Arteries / Q000002:abnormalities*; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000150:complications