Carotid artery variants are extremely uncommon and are often incidental. We present a case where imaging revealed rare congenital absence of right internal carotid with distal segments arising from ...

The authors analysed 24 consecutive patients with T occlusions of the internal carotid artery treated by local intra-arterial thrombolysis using urokinase. Results: The median baseline National ...

amc.uva.nl Introduction Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) due to internal carotid artery (ICA) occlusion has a poor prognosis if treated by intravenous ... choice of the material and techniques used for MT ...

while performing angioplasty and stenting procedures involving lesions of the internal carotid artery and/or the bifurcation; the reference diameter of the external carotid artery should be between ...

Carotid cavernous fistulas are abnormal communications between the carotid artery or its branches and the cavernous sinus ... He had a quite tense right eye proptosis. The left eye was spontaneously ...

Correspondence to Dr Kazim H Narsinh, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; kazim.narsinh{at}ucsf.edu Pulsatile tinnitus is a debilitating symptom affecting millions ...

This article was originally posted Dec. 8, 2014. It has been updated. There are many things in medicine that are merely a matter of preference or style. How to check a patient’s pulse is not one ...

There are actually two subclavian arteries (the left ... artery once it passes the first rib. The axillary artery supplies blood to the axillary region of the body; it extends down the arm to become ...

A visit to the doctor for tooth pain uncovered a woman’s “giant” brain aneurysm that required innovative, minimally invasive ...

Celiac artery compression syndrome, also known as median arcuate ligament syndrome, is a condition where a muscular fibrous band of the diaphragm, the median arcuate ligament, compresses the celiac ...