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Abbreviations

AChA:

Anterior choroidal artery

PCA:

Posterior cerebral artery

PCoA:

Posterior communicating artery

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Dr. Mitsuteru Oikawa (Hiragishi Brain & Nerve Clinic, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan) for his support. We thank Claire Barnes, Ph.D., from Edanz (https://jp.edanz.com/ac) for editing a draft of this manuscript.

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Hideki Endo: conceptualization, methodology, validation, formal analysis, investigation, resources, data curation, writing—original draft, writing—review & editing, visualization, project administration. Hidetoshi Ono: validation, formal analysis, data curation, writing—review & editing. Hirohiko Nakamura: supervision.

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All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Nakamura Memorial Hospital (No. 2023110401).

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Endo, H., Ono, H. & Nakamura, H. Accessory posterior cerebral artery. Acta Neurol Belg (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13760-024-02489-x

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