title: [Variation in the flow and branching of the anterior and middle cerebral arteries].
abstract: We used injection and corrosion method to study path, caliber and branching of anterior and middle cerebral artery, which supplies anterior two thirds of medial and external surface of cerebral hemispheres and associated subcortical structures. When we studied our specimens, we observed that internal carotid artery always bifurcates and gives anterior and middle cerebral artery. Precommunicant segment of anterior cerebral artery has variable appearance. In 65 percent this path of anterior cerebral artery is arch shaped with convexity laterally and forward, but in 44 percent it is straight and oblique in direction. We observer that in 1 percent of cases precommunicant segment of anterior cerebral artery has wavey path. In one percent of the cases anterior third of pericallosal artery is branching from anterior communicating artery. This third pericallosal artery is smaller than the other pair of pericallosal arteries branching from anterior cerebral artery. Initial segment of middle cerebral artery(pars sphenoidalis) is 2.5 cm long. In 70 percent of cases terminal part of sphenidal segment of middle cerebral artery bifurcates, in 30 percent of cases we studied this segment trifucates. Insular segment of the middle cerebral artery branches into several segments which are narrower. When we studied our specimens we found one rare variation branching from middle cerebral artery where it bifurcated into anterior smaller and posterior larger branch, than they divide into multiple smaller branches in periinsular segment.
authors.affiliation: Institut za anatomiju, Medicinski fakultet Sarajevo.
authors.forename: Amela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kulenović
authors.forename: Faruk
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dilberović
authors.forename: Fehim
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ovcina
mesh_terms: D020771:Anterior Cerebral Artery / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D016319:Corrosion Casting; D006801:Humans; D020768:Middle Cerebral Artery / Q000033:anatomy & histology*
vernacular_title: Varijacije toka i grananja arteriae cerebri anterior i arteriae cerebri mediae.