Acute bilateral paramedian thalamic and mesencephalic infarcts due to occlusion of the Percheron artery: a case report
Journal Title: The European Research Journal - Year 2019, Vol 5, Issue 5
Abstract
The thalamus and midbrain mesencephalon have a complex blood supply with a great number of feeding arteries. The blood build up of thalamus is being provided by four arteries originating from the vertebrobasilar system and posterior communicating artery. The paramedian thalamic artery is derived from the posterior cerebral artery proximal P1 segment. The infarcts of arterial constitute approximately 35% of all thalamic infarcts. However, bilateral infarctions of this region are very infrequent. Percheron artery originates from the first branch of the posterior cerebral artery and gives bilateral medial thalamic perforating branches. We described a patient of a 88-year-old woman with acute bilateral thalamic and midbrain infarcts due to occlusion of Percheron artery demonstrated on magnetic resonance imaging.
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Alev Leventoğlu, Gülin Morkavuk
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