G. Hahn (Dresden)  

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11 Years  

Female  

Neck-Vessels  

congenital  

11 year old girl with sudden problems with vision and loss of sensation in the left arm. Otherwise, no clinical symptoms. In an outside (university) clinic, dissection of the verebral artery on the left side was diagnosed and an Aspirin-treatment was encouraged, which was rejected by the mother. The child was called in for a second opinion to us, where a MRI with MR-angiography was completed.  

Chance finding of a short doubling of the left vertebral artery.  

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MRI 1: TOF-MRA (MIP) of the neck vessels with a short region of doubling of the left vertebral artery.




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MRI 2: TOF-MRA (Primary slices) of the neck vessels with a short region of doubling of the left vertebral artery.

 

Expert's opinion  

Dissection of the left vertebral artery.  

Chance finding without relevance.  

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Normal variation, vertebral, artery, short, doubling, Arteria vertebralis, vertebral artery, duplication, vision problems, loss of sensation, child, childhood, pediatric radiology  

G Hahn. Normal variation of the Arteria vertebralis with short segmented duplication. PedRad [serial online] vol 2, no. 6.
URL: www.PedRad.info/?search=20020610152049