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

Neurosurgery
T SerizawaA Yamaura

Abstract

Precise identification of the anomalous anterior communicating artery (ACoA) or the perforating branches of the ACoA is usually difficult on preoperative angiograms because of the vascular complexity around the ACoA and its small-caliber branches. The purpose of this study was to review the microsurgical anatomy of the ACoA and its branches to show their importance for the interhemispheric trans-lamina terminalis approach and ACoA aneurysmal surgery. In 30 cadaver brains, the ACoA and its branches were examined under magnification using a surgical microscope. The ACoA was evident in all specimens and had variations consisting of plexiform (33%), dimple (33%), fenestration (21%), duplication (18%), string (18%), fusion (12%), median artery of the corpus callosum (6%), and azygous anterior cerebral artery (3%). The perforating branches were also observed in all cadaver brains. They were classified into subcallosal, hypothalamic, and chiasmatic branches according to their vascular territories. The subcallosal branch, usually single and the largest, supplied the bilateral subcallosal areas, branching off to the hypothalamic area. The hypothalamic branches, multiple and of small caliber, terminated in the hypothalamic area. The inci...Continue Reading

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