Detailed 3D-morphometry of the anterior communicating artery: Potential clinical and neurosurgical implications

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 531-538

  Żurada, Anna ^a   Gielecki, Jerzy ^a   Shane Tubbs, R ^b   Loukas, Marios ^c   Maksymowicz, Wojciech ^a   Chlebiej, Michał ^a,d   Cohen Gadol, Aaron A ^e   Zawiliński, Jarosław ^f   Nowak, Dariusz ^g   Michalak, MacIej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c St George's University   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^d NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e Indianapolis Neurosurgical Group   (United States)

^f JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^g NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

3D morphometry; Anatomy; Anterior communicating artery; Cerebral artery; Diameter; Measurement; Vessel deviation; Vessel tortuosity

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ANEURYSM; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIGITAL IMAGING; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGEON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULAR LESION;

EID: 80052053080     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: 12798517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-011-0792-z     Document Type: Article

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