title: Persistent hypoglossal artery in association with advanced atherosclerosis.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: 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