Summary
The persistent hypoglossal artery is an anomaly of great interest which probably becomes clinically significant only when it is associated with occlusive cerebrovascular disease or some other life-threatening vascular abnormality such as intracranial aneurysm on the same side in the carotid-middle cerebral artery territory. In the case reported here it was apparently of no clinical importance in spite of associated atherosclerosis and thrombosis.
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Die A. hypoglossica primitiva ist eine sehr interessante Anomalie, die nur klinische Bedeutung bekommt, wenn sie vergesellschaftet ist mit arteriellen Hirngefäßverschlüssen oder mit anderen lebensbedrohenden Gefäßanomalien, wie Aneurysmen des Carotis-Media-Gebietes derselben Seite. In dem hier berichteten Fall war sie offenbar nicht von klinischer Bedeutung, trotz gleichzeitiger Atherosklerose und Thrombose anderer Gefäßterritorien.
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Dedicated to Professor K. J. Zülch on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
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Fields, W.S. Persistent hypoglossal artery in association with advanced atherosclerosis. Neurosurg. Rev. 3, 37–41 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01644417
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