Patients with Klippel-Feil syndrome (KFS) have an increased incidence of vascular anomalies as well as vertebral artery (VA) anomalies. In this article, we presented imaging findings of a 15-year-old female patient with KFS with a rare association of extraforaminal cranially ascending right VA that originated from the ipsilateral carotid bulb. Trifurcation of the carotid bulb with VA is a very unusual variation and to the best of our knowledge, right-sided one has not been reported in the literature.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4936178 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2016.17.4.554 | DOI Listing |
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