title: The earliest case of extracranial aneurysm of the vertebral artery.
abstract: A lesion is described on the body of C4 from the skeleton of an adult male recovered from a 15th century site in Gloucester. The most plausible explanation for the lesion is that it represents the negative image of an extracranial aneurysm of the vertebral artery and thus is the earliest case described.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Archaeology, University College Hospital, London, UK.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vaswani
authors.forename: H A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Waldron
mesh_terms: D000783:Aneurysm / Q000266:history* / Q000473:pathology; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000473:pathology; D049668:History, 15th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014711:Vertebral Artery