Twig-like middle cerebral artery

Case contributed by Vitalii Rogalskyi , 12 May 2022
Diagnosis certain
Changed by Daniel Heath, 27 Mar 2024
Disclosures - updated 5 Mar 2024: Nothing to disclose

Updates to Study Attributes

Findings was changed:

CTA demonstrates an absence of the main trunk of the right MCA with multiple small vessels reconstituting it.

Severe stenosis of the M1 segment of the left MCA.

Fetal origin of right PCA - an absence of P1 segment with a good developed PCom which continues into P2 segment of PCA. 

Developmental venous anomaly (DVA) in the right frontal lobe which drains into the right internal cerebral vein.

Updates to Case Attributes

Age changed from 60 years to Male.

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