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Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings
The peer-reviewed journal of Baylor Scott & White Health
Volume 32, 2019 - Issue 1
Case Studies
Type 2 persistent primitive proatlantal intersegmental artery, a rare variant of persistent carotid-vertebrobasilar anastomoses
Gagandeep ChoudharyDivision of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; 
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3261-1979
, MD http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3261-1979, Narendra AdhikariDivision of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4136-8114
, MD http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4136-8114, Jad ChokrDepartment of Radiology, Clemenceau Medical Center, Affiliated with Johns Hopkins International, Beirut, Lebanon; Correspondence[email protected]
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2478-9195
, MD http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2478-9195 & Nishant GuptaDepartment of Radiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New Yorkhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-0611-5733
, MD http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0611-5733