Splenium of corpus callosum acute infarction - posterior pericallosal artery territory

Discussion:

Corpus callosum is richly vascularized thus not commonly infarcted.  The posterior pericallosal (or splenial) artery supplies the splenium.  It is a branch of the ipsilateral posterior cerebral artery (P3).  In this case the patient is presumed to have thrown off an embolus to the posterior cerebral artery and occluded the posterior pericallosal branch

    Create a new playlist
Loading...