The cerebral arterial circle (circulus arteriosus cerebri): An anatomical study in fetus and infant samples

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 388-392

  Ardakani, Shahab Kamali ^a,e   Dadmehr, Majid ^a   Nejat, Farideh ^a   Ansari, Saeed ^a   Eftekhar, Behzad ^b   Tajik, Parvin ^a   El Khashab, Mostafa ^f   Yazdani, Shahrooz ^a   Ghodsi, Mohammad ^c   Mahjoub, Fatemeh ^a   Monajemzadeh, Maryam ^a   Nazparvar, Bashir ^d   Abdi Rad, Afshin ^d  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e AJA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aplasia; Circle of Willis; Hypoplasia

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; APLASIA; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DYSPLASIA; ARTERY LENGTH; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; IRAN; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE FACTORS; CIRCLE OF WILLIS; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN;

EID: 49249088652     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000149906     Document Type: Article

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