PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Hsu, Daniel P
AU  - Alexander, Ashley D
AU  - Gilkeson, Robert C
TI  - Anomalous vertebral artery origins: the first and second reports of two variants
AID  - 10.1136/jnis.2009.001271
DP  - 2010 Jun 01
TA  - Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery
PG  - 160--162
VI  - 2
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jnis.bmj.com/content/2/2/160.short
4100  - http://jnis.bmj.com/content/2/2/160.full
SO  - J NeuroIntervent Surg2010 Jun 01; 2
AB  - We present two cases of aberrant origins of vertebral arteries. Case 1 is of a patient undergoing evaluation of an infrarenal aortic aneurysm stent graft. Computed tomography (CT) angiogram revealed an aberrant right vertebral artery that subsequently joined a second right vertebral artery that had the typical origin off the right subclavian artery. This represents an unusual anatomic variation not previously reported in the literature. Case 2 is of a patient being evaluated for thoracic aorta injury. CT angiogram of the chest revealed a five-vessel aortic arch with aberrant origin of the bilateral vertebral arteries distal to the left subclavian artery.