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Three Cases of Carotid Anterior Cerebral Anastomosis Sadahiko BAN 1 , Shoji NAKATSU 1 , Shigeo MATSUMOTO 1 , Shinichi SATO 1 , Takahiko MOTOZAKI 1 , Toyoshiro YAMAMOTO 1 1Department of Neurosurgery, Kobe City General Hospital Keyword: Vascular anomaly , Anterior cerebral artery , Internal carotid artery , Aneurysm , Subarachnoid hemorrhage pp.1071-1077
Published Date 1990/11/10
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1436900171
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Three cases are presented with rare carotid-anterior cerebral anastamosis (anomalous ACA) originating from the internal carotid artery at the level of the ori-gin of the ophthalmic artery, running first underneath and then between both optic nerves, and finally joining the anterior communicating artery.

Case 1 (47 year-old woman) and case 2 (56 year-old man) were both admitted with subarachnoid hemor-rhage from a ruptured aneurysm, which was located at the anomalous ACA (carotid-ACA anastomosis) . Case 3 (61 year-old man) was diagnosed as having left occi-pital intracerbral hematoma on CT, and bilateral ano-malous ACA was found on angiograms. This anoma-lous ACA is very rare; only 21 cases have been re-ported in the literature.

Several synonyms have been proposed as follows: 1) infraoptic course of the anterior cerebral artery (ACA) , 2) interoptic course of ACA, 3) an anomalous branch of the internal carotid artery (ICA) and 4) an anastomosis between the ICA and the ACA (carotid-ACA anastomosis).

In cases with this carotid-ACA anastomosis, co-existing intracranial aneurysm has been reported. However, this is the first report of ruptured aneurysm located at the anomolous ACA itself.

Case 1 and 2 were operated on through the ipsilater-al pterional approach and the aneurysm was successful-ly clipped. Postoperative course was uneventful in each case. Case 3 was treated conservatively.

From the angiographical and operative findings, we prefer to use “carotid-anterior cerebral artery anastomo-sis” as the medical terminology best suited to describe this condition.


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