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The authors present two cases of angiographically-confirmed anomalous origin of the posterior meningeal artery (PMA) from the lateral segment of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) and describe briefly the probable embryogenesis of this anomaly.
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Tanohata, K., Maehara, T., Noda, M. et al. Anomalous origin of the posterior meningeal artery from the lateral medullary segment of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery. Neuroradiology 29, 89–92 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00341048
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00341048