PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sade, Burak
AU  - Tampieri, Donatella
AU  - Mohr, Gérard
TI  - Ophthalmic Artery Originating from Basilar Artery: A Rare Variant
DP  - 2004 Nov 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 1730--1731
VI  - 25
IP  - 10
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/25/10/1730.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/25/10/1730.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.2004 Nov 01; 25
AB  - Summary: The basilar artery as the origin of the ophthalmic artery is extremely rare. A 48-year-old patient had undergone angiography for suspicion of a right middle cerebral artery aneurysm. No aneurysm was detected. Vertebral artery injections demonstrated the left ophthalmic artery originating from the basilar trunk. Current embryologic theories fall short in explaining this entity. Awareness of neuroanatomic variations is of paramount importance in diagnosis and treatment of vascular lesions of the brain.