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Anatomy of Cerebral Vessels in Infants and Children

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The form, caliber, distribution, and pairing of arterial and venous structures in the newborn, infant, and child are distinctly different from what one observes in the adult, though the naming of the vessels is identical. Consequently, it is assumed that the reader is conversant with standard neuroradiological nomenclature. Within broad limits one may safely generalize that the younger the child the wider the caliber and the greater the redundancy of intracisternal and intraffisural vessels (such as the internal carotid, sylvian complex, basilar and posterior cerebrals). This may be related to the relatively greater size of the basal cisterns and the fissures. Also, the frontal lobes in the newborn and infant are extremely small. This latter anatomic characteristic is responsible for the central sulcus being closer to the coronal suture.

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  1. Northwestern University Medical Schoool, Chigago, Illinois, USA

    Anthony J. Raimondi M.D. (Professor of Surgery (Neaurosurgery) (Professor of Surgery (Neaurosurgery)

  2. Hôpital des Enfantes de la Timone, Rue Sainte Pierre, 13005, Marseille, France

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  3. Instituto di Neuochirurgia, Università Cattolica del Sacre Cuore, Largo Gemelli 8, 00168, Rome, Italy

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Raimondi, A.J. (1992). Anatomy of Cerebral Vessels in Infants and Children. In: Raimondi, A.J., Choux, M., Di Rocco, C. (eds) Cerebrovascular Diseases in Children. Principles of Pediatric Neurosurgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2800-4_2

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