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ReviewSurgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA2021

Embryological development of the human cranio-facial arterial system: a pictorial review.

Lorenzo Bertulli, Thomas Robert

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Review in Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lorenzo BertulliDepartment of Neurosurgery, Neurocenter of the Southern Switzerland, Via Tesserete 46, 6903, Lugano, TI, Switzerland. lorenzo.bertulli@eoc.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4620-408X
Thomas RobertDepartment of Neurosurgery, Neurocenter of the Southern Switzerland, Via Tesserete 46, 6903, Lugano, TI, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0028-0124
Laboratory for Biomedical Neurosciences · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The embryological development of the cerebral vasculature is very complex. Historical and also more recent studies based on human embryos, comparative anatomy and cerebral angiographies allowed us to better understand this vasculature development. The knowledge and understanding of such embryological development are important for physicians interested in neurovascular pathologies. Indeed, all vascular variants and almost all vascular pathologies, such as aneurysms, dolichoectasia, atherosclerosis, and neurovascular conflicts could be explained by an alteration during the embryological life. There are also many variants of these vascular structures present in normal developed adults, which are variably associated with pathological entities. Understanding the process which leads to the development of the normal cerebral arterial system in humans is, therefore, very important to have a better knowledge of the possible clinical and surgical implications of these anomalies. In this paper, we review the embryological development of the cranio-facial arterial vasculature from its beginning at approximately days 21-50 of intrauterine life, with pictures illustrating each developmental phase.

Indexed as

Embryonic DevelopmentMedical IllustrationAnatomy, ComparativeCerebral AngiographyCerebral ArteriesEmbryo, MammalianFaceHumansCranial arteriesEmbryologic developmentPathophysiologyVariants

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PMID33492439
PMCPMC8164624
OpenAlexW3122037826

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