Management of intracranial vertebral artery stenosis with ipsilateral vertebral artery hypoplasia and contralateral vertebral artery occlusion via type 2 proatlantal intersegmental artery

Background: Proatlantal intersegmental artery (PIA) is a rare primitive carotid-basilar anastomosis. PIA may accompany with ipsilateral or bilateral vertebral arteries (VAs) agenesis. Here, we presented the case with intracranial VA stenosis supplying via PIA and demonstrated how we evaluated and ma...

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Main Authors: Chuan-Min Lin, Chien-Hung Chang, Ho-Fai Wong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-06-01
Series:Biomedical Journal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S231941702030010X