Ascending pharyngeal artery, neuromeningeal trunk to vertebral artery

Ascending pharyngeal artery to meningohypophyseal trunk, internal carotid artery

Inferior thyroid artery to superior thyroid artery

Vertebral artery to occipital artery

Case #1

    74 year old man with complaint of "spells" of left body numbness when he sneezes or turns his head quickly. Images from a right subclavian arteriogram are shown below.

Case 1a

The right common carotid artery is occluded. Collateral circulation from the inferior thyroid artery supplies the superior thyroid artery which fills the external carotid retrograde. 

Case 1b

The external carotid artery is also receiving retrograde flow from a vertebral to occipital artery collateral. The ascending pharyngeal artery is filling from the vertebral system, likely through the neuromeningeal trunk.

Case 1c

The cavernous internal carotid is reconstituted via the ascending pharyngeal artery. Vertebral to occipital artery flow, with filling of the external carotid artery, is again seen. 

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