Non-bifurcating cervical carotid artery.
Three cases of an extremely rare anomaly of the carotid artery are described herein. In these patients, the common carotid arteries, without bifurcation in the cervical portion, supplied multiple arterial branches, which are more commonly branches of the external carotid artery. The non-bifurcating carotid artery continued into the cranium as a normal internal carotid artery. This anomaly can be attributed to a maldevelopment of the vascular network during embryogenesis.
Ooigawa
Hidetoshi
H
Department of Neurosurgery, National Defense Medical College, 3-2 Namiki, Tokorozawa, Saitama 359-8513, Japan.
Nawashiro
Hiroshi
H
Fukui
Shinji
S
Tsuzuki
Nobusuke
N
Katoh
Hiroshi
H
Kawaguchi
Tsutomu
T
Kaneko
Yoshiro
Y
Tsutsumi
Masanori
M
Kawano
Teruaki
T
Shima
Katsuji
K
D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000098:blood supply*; D017536:Carotid Artery, Common / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002342:Carotid Artery, External / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002426:Cavernous Sinus / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D002533:Cerebral Angiography / Q000592:standards; D005260:Female; D006257:Head / Q000098:blood supply*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed