Microsurgical anatomy and clinical significance of the anterior communicating artery and its perforating branches

Neurosurgery

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1211-1218

  Serizawa, Toru ^a   Saeki, Naokatsu ^a   Yamaura, Akira ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior communicating artery; Anterior communicating artery aneurysm; Interhemispheric approach; Lamina terminalis; Microsurgical anatomy; Perforating branch; Pterional approach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CADAVER; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MICROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MICROSCOPE;

AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030915440     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199706000-00019     Document Type: Article

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