To unsubscribe or search other topics on UVM Flownet link to: http://list.uvm.edu/archives/uvmflownet.htmlNot all that may people in the world probably care but I know there are several on this list who do. Found a lady this morning with bilateral ICA branches. And yes, I identified long and transverse.
Quite rare – told her she was not one in a million (she was a little disappointed) but….. I had not looked at the literature for a few years and have generally quoted 1 in a 1000 but turns out, it may be substantially higher than that.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24368597
They found a 0.49 % prevalence of the occipital artery origin and a 6.25 % prevalence of the superior pharyngeal branch of the ascending pharyngeal artery. Wow!
Happy Scanning!
Bill
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