Incidental finding of an absent left common carotid artery.

We describe a case of a young woman evaluated for Raynaud's phenomenon in whom an extremely rare variation, the absence of the left common carotid artery, was incidentally detected as an isolated finding. The detection of vascular anomalies may be important for future endovascular or surgical interventions.
PMID: 29271704 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: VASA. Zeitschrift fur Gefasskrankheiten. Journal for Vascular Diseases - December 22, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Noflatscher M, Luger AK, Frank R, Glodny B, Gruber J, Marschang P Tags: Vasa Source Type: research