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Lateral Position of the External Carotid Artery: A Rare Variation to Be Recognized During Carotid Endarterectomy

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Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to Mr. Tomoaki Ishikawa, chief radiology technician, for outstanding processing and evaluation of the 3-D CTA images.

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The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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This retrospective study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at Otaru Municipal Medical Center, and informed consent was obtained from all the patients prior to their inclusion in the study.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Otaru General Hospital, Wakamatsu 1-1-1, Otaru, 047-8550, Japan

    Masaki Ito MD, PhD, Yoshimasa Niiya MD, PhD, Hiroyuki Itosaka MD, PhD, Motoyuki Iwasaki MD, PhD & Shoji Mabuchi MD, PhD

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, North 15, West 7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8638, Japan

    Masaki Ito MD, PhD, Ken Kazumata MD, PhD & Kiyohiro Houkin MD, PhD

  3. Department of Radiology, Otaru General Hospital, Wakamatsu 1-1-1, Otaru, 047-8550, Japan

    Masashi Kojima

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    Luca Regli

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Ito, M. et al. (2016). Lateral Position of the External Carotid Artery: A Rare Variation to Be Recognized During Carotid Endarterectomy. In: Tsukahara, T., Pasqualin, A., Esposito, G., Regli, L., Pinna, G. (eds) Trends in Cerebrovascular Surgery. Acta Neurochirurgica Supplement, vol 123. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29887-0_16

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