PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Matheus, M. Gisele
AU  - Castillo, Mauricio
TI  - Imaging of Acute Bilateral Paramedian Thalamic and Mesencephalic Infarcts
DP  - 2003 Nov 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 2005--2008
VI  - 24
IP  - 10
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/24/10/2005.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/24/10/2005.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.2003 Nov 01; 24
AB  - Summary: Thalami and midbrain arterial supply arises from many perforating blood vessels with a complex distribution for which many variations have been described. One rare variation, named the “artery of Percheron,” is a solitary arterial trunk that arises from one of the proximal segments of a posterior cerebral artery and supplies the paramedian thalami and the rostral midbrain bilaterally. Occlusion of this artery results in bilateral thalamic and mesencephalic infarctions. We describe three patients with a presumed occlusion of the artery of Percheron in whom MR imaging showed characteristic symmetrical bilateral paramedian thalamic and mesencephalic infarctions.