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Volume 298, Issue 1 , Pages 150-152 , 15 November 2010

Dual origin of the left vertebral artery: Extracranial MRA and CTA findings

W. Oliver Tobin
- Department of Neurology, The Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin, incorporating the National Children's Hospital, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Ronan Killeen
- Department of Radiology, The Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin, incorporating the National Children's Hospital, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Justin A. Kinsella
- Department of Neurology, The Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin, incorporating the National Children's Hospital, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Dominick J.H. McCabe
- Department of Neurology, The Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin, incorporating the National Children's Hospital, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Royal Free Campus, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK
- Corresponding author. Department of Neurology, The Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin, incorporating the National Children's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. Tel.: +353 1 4144217; fax: +353 1 4143031.

Received 11 May 2010 ,Revised 15 July 2010 ,Accepted 21 July 2010.

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