Atlas of the Supraaortic Craniocervical Arterial Variations. MR and CT Angiography

Chapter 1 Branching variations from the aortic arch and aortic arch anomaly.- Chapter 2 Variations of the common carotid artery (CCA) and carotid bifurcation.- Chapter 3 Variations of the internal carotid artery (ICA).- Chapter 4 External carotid artery (ECA) branches arising from the internal carotid artery (ICA).- Chapter 5 Carotid-vertebrobasilar anastomoses.- Chapter 6 Variations of the origin of the ophthalmic artery (OphA).- Chapter 7 Variations of the posterior communicating artery (PCoA), proximal posterior cerebral artery (PCA) and anterior choroidal artery (AChA).- Chapter 8 Variations of the proximal middle cerebral artery (MCA).- Chapter 9 Variations of the proximal anterior cerebral artery (ACA) including anterior communicating artery (ACoA).- Chapter 10 Variations of the vertebral artery (VA) and vertebrobasilar junction (VBJ).- Chapter 11 Variations of the basilar artery (BA).- Chapter 12 Variations of the cerebellar arteries.

This book presents numerous figures of various variations of the supraaortic arteries detected by MR and CT angiography. Improved both MR and CT angiographic image quality permits incidental detection of even small anomalous arterial branches. Although the cerebral arterial variations may have limited clinical significance, their correct diagnosis during MR and CT angiographic image interpretation is important to interventional neuroradiologists as well as both neurosurgeons and otorhinolaryngologists, who must be familiar with arterial variations to prevent complications during surgery. Readers can easily identify arterial variations and make correct diagnosis during image interpretation using this textbook.

Akira Uchino, M.D., Ph.D., is Chief Radiologist of Saitama Sekishinkai Hospital and Visiting Professor of Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan. He graduated from Kyushu University Faculty of Medicine. He completed a radiology residency and neuroradiology fellowship at Kyushu University Hospital.

He is a Board Certified Diagnostic Radiologist of Japan Radiological Society, and Honorary Member of Japanese Society of Neuroradiology. He was a Councilor of Japan Radiological Society, Japanese Society of Neuroradiology, Japanese Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, and Japanese Society of Interventional Radiology. He was an Associate Member of the European Society of Neuroradiology, the American Society of Neuroradiology, and the Radiological Society of North America. His clinical and research interests include craniocervical arterial variations. He has published numerous papers mainly in Springer Journals.