Endovascular treatment of a basilar tip aneurysm via a persistent primitive proatlantal intersegmental artery

Background: A proatlantal intersegmental artery is an anastomosis between the carotid and vertebrobasilar arterial systems that exists in the developing fetus to temporarily maintain the posterior cerebral circulation. Failure of this artery to obliterate once the vertebral arteries are developed re...

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Main Authors: Theresa A. Elder, MD, Leonard H. Verhey, MD, PhD, Devin B. Simon, MD, Eleanor C. Smith, BS, Joseph G. Adel, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-12-01
Series:Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214751919301975