Abstract
An aberrant course of the internal carotid artery is a rare vascular anomaly. This is the only known reported case of bilateral aberrant internal carotid arteries examined with CT and MRI.
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Ashikaga, R., Araki, Y. & Ishida, O. Bilateral aberrant internal carotid arteries. Neuroradiology 37, 655–657 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00593385
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00593385