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The anterior communicating artery variants: a meta-analysis with a proposed classification system.
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- Prevalence of suboccipital and intradural vertebral artery variants: a systematic review with meta-analysis.Neuroradiology · 2025Pooled it
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- Prevalence of basilar artery variants: a systematic review with meta-analysis of radiological studies.Neuroradiology · 2026Article
- Lack of Anterior Communicating Artery Is Associated with Symptomatic Middle Cerebral Artery Atherosclerosis.Biomedicines · 2026Article
- A rare combination of anterior cerebral arterial ring with accessory middle and duplicated posterior cerebral arteries.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2026Article
- The role of contrast-enhanced transcranial color-coded real-time sonography combined with the common carotid artery compression test in preoperative evaluation of anterior communicating artery patency in patients with insufficient temporal bone windows.Frontiers in neurology · 2026Article
- Infundibular origin of a duplicated anterior communicating artery mimicking an aneurysm.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2025Article
- Morphological Variations of the Anterior Cerebral Artery: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis of 85,316 Patients.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Persistent trigeminal artery linked with partial duplication of the anterior communicating artery.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2025Article
- Combination of three rare arterial variations: accessory posterior cerebral artery supplying parieto-occipital branch, duplicate origin of the middle cerebral artery, and accessory anterior cerebral artery (ACA) arising from X-shaped ACA diagnosed by magnetic resonance angiography.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2025Article
- "Complete" duplication of the posterior cerebral artery: a rare variant detected on computed tomography angiography.Anatomical science international · 2025Article
- True fenestration of an extremely long anterior communicating artery diagnosed by magnetic resonance angiography.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2025Article
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- Case Report: Microsurgical clipping of a multilobular fenestrated anterior communicating artery aneurysm: technical challenges with video analysis.Frontiers in surgery · 2025Article
- Accessory middle cerebral artery of distal origin associated with an anterior communicating artery duplication that mimicked an aneurysm.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2024Article
- Morphology and morphometry of the anterior cerebral-anterior communicating artery complex.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2024Article
- Cervical internal carotid artery fenestration: a rare cause of lumen "dissection''.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2024Article
- Fenestration of the anterior and posterior cerebral arteries in coexistence with a contralateral posterior cerebral artery of fetal origin.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2024Article
- Multiple Rare Anatomic Variations in Anterior and Posterior Cerebral Circulation: A Case Report.Cureus · 2024Article
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Abstract
Morphological and morphometric variants of the anterior communicating artery (AComA) have been described by multiple studies; however, a complete classification system of all possible morphological variants with their prevalence is lacking. The current systematic review with meta-analysis combines data from different databases, concerning the AComA morphological and morphometric variants (length and diameter). Emphasis was given to the related clinical implications to highlight the clinical value of their knowledge. The typical AComA morphology occurs with a pooled prevalence (PP) of 67.3%, while the PP of atypical AComA is 32.7%. The identified AComA morphological variants (artery's hypoplasia, absence, duplication, triplication, differed shape, fenestration, and the persistence of a median artery of the corpus callosum- MACC) were classified in order of frequency. The commonest presented variants were the AComA hypoplasia (8%) and the anterior cerebral artery (ACA) fusion (5.9%), and the rarest ones were the MACC persistence (2.3%), and the AComA triplication (0.7%). The knowledge of those variants is essential, especially for neurosurgeons operating in the area. Given the high prevalence of AComA aneurysms, an adequate and complete classification of those variants is of utmost importance.
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