Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2024
V3 segment of the right vertebral artery taking an anomalous posterosuperior course and penetrating occipital bone (wall of the jugular foramen) diagnosed by magnetic resonance angiography.
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Uchino Akira, Suzuki Chihiro
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PURPOSE: To describe a case of an anomalous posterosuperior course of the V3 segment of the right vertebral artery (VA) that penetrated the occipital bone (wall of the jugular foramen).
METHODS: A 33-year-old healthy woman underwent cranial magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and MR angiography from the upper cervical to the intracranial region using a 3-Tesla scanner to screen for asymptomatic brain lesions, including cerebrovascular diseases.
RESULTS: MR angiography showed no pathological arterial lesions such as aneurysms; however, there was an anomalous posterosuperior course of the V3 segment of the right VA. On MR angiographic source images and coronal reformatted images, the right VA was observed to penetrate the occipital bone lateral to the right hypoglossal canal and is located on the inferoposteromedial wall of the right jugular foramen and enter the posterior fossa at a higher level than the foramen magnum.
CONCLUSION: We present a case in which the right VA showed an anomalous posterosuperior course at the craniovertebral junction. It is extremely rare for a VA to take a higher course. To our knowledge, this is the first report of such a VA variation in the relevant English-language literature. We speculated that the right VA of our patient was formed by the persistence of one more cephalad primitive artery than the first intersegmental artery, not by the persistence of the primitive hypoglossal artery. Careful observation of MR angiographic source is useful and important for identifying the VA penetrating the occipital bone.
METHODS: A 33-year-old healthy woman underwent cranial magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and MR angiography from the upper cervical to the intracranial region using a 3-Tesla scanner to screen for asymptomatic brain lesions, including cerebrovascular diseases.
RESULTS: MR angiography showed no pathological arterial lesions such as aneurysms; however, there was an anomalous posterosuperior course of the V3 segment of the right VA. On MR angiographic source images and coronal reformatted images, the right VA was observed to penetrate the occipital bone lateral to the right hypoglossal canal and is located on the inferoposteromedial wall of the right jugular foramen and enter the posterior fossa at a higher level than the foramen magnum.
CONCLUSION: We present a case in which the right VA showed an anomalous posterosuperior course at the craniovertebral junction. It is extremely rare for a VA to take a higher course. To our knowledge, this is the first report of such a VA variation in the relevant English-language literature. We speculated that the right VA of our patient was formed by the persistence of one more cephalad primitive artery than the first intersegmental artery, not by the persistence of the primitive hypoglossal artery. Careful observation of MR angiographic source is useful and important for identifying the VA penetrating the occipital bone.