Cervical aortic arch in a patient with Turner syndrome.
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We report a case of a young girl with Turner syndrome presenting with a pulsatile left-sided supraclavicular swelling since birth, which proved to be the rare anomaly of a cervical aortic arch. Though elongation of the transverse aortic arch is well known in Turner syndrome, to the best of our knowledge, a cervical aortic arch has not been described in the literature.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Diagnostic and interventional radiology
دوره 16 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010