Introduction:An aberrant or anomalous subarcuate artery and its canal is an extremely rare and clinically significant finding.If accidentally nicked or injured, it can u11-200ps cause inadvertent hemorrhage and obscure the surgical field.Case Report:We present a case of 21 year old made with Chronic Otitis Media of the right ear who was incidentally diagnosed with a dilated subarcuate canal and an aberrant subarcuate artery atypically associated with lateral semicircular canal and facial nerve.Conclusions:Prior knowledge of this symptomatically dormant sapatilha infantil prata glitter variation is important, particularly in retrofacial tympanomastoidectomy and cerebello-pontine angle tumor surgeries.
Pre-operative temporal bone scans are advisable in such cases.