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A detailed description of core arterial anatomy of the head and neck region is provided. Arteries are the most common routes for embolisation and recanalisation procedures. This tutorial provides the detailed knowledge needed for their navigation and for delivering treatments. The reader is introduced to a level of detail needed for the safe practice of such endovascular therapies. Overlaps between vascular territories and collateral routes of blood supply are explained. The descriptions are tailored in a practical approach to show how a series of major and minor arteries are integrated to supply blood to the internal and external structures of the cranium.
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Thomas Wills (1621–1675) English physician who worked most of his life in Oxford. He described the basal anastomotic ring in ‘Cerebri anatome cui accesit nervorum descriptio et usus’ published in 1664.
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Vidus Vidius (1509–1569) Italian surgeon and anatomist who worked in Florence and Paris and taught at the University of Pisa.
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Bartolomeo Eustachi (1514–1574) Italian anatomist whose anatomical drawings were published posthumously because he feared excommunication from the Catholic Church.
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Luigi Rolando (1773–1831) Italian anatomist and physiologist who worked in Turin and Sardinia.
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Alexander Monro (1733–1817) Scottish physician who was professor of anatomy in Edinburgh.
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Byrne, J.V. (2017). Cranial Arterial Anatomy. In: Tutorials in Endovascular Neurosurgery and Interventional Neuroradiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54835-7_2
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