Erschienen in:
11.01.2023 | Correspondence
Medial Tentorial Meningeal Supply from the Collicular Artery
Anatomy and Endovascular Implications
verfasst von:
Sean Thomas O’Reilly, Timo Krings
Erschienen in:
Clinical Neuroradiology
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Ausgabe 2/2023
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In 1965, the husband and wife team Drs. Paul and Gertraud Wollschlaeger first described a meningeal artery supplying the medial tentorium which arose from pial vessels of the infratentorial compartment, following their cadaveric dissections and postmortem cerebral angiography of 291 specimens [
1,
2]. They named this vessel arising from the posterior cerebral artery (PCA), the artery of Davidoff and Schechter (ADS) in homage to their mentors in neuroradiology [
3]. A rarer variant meningeal supply to the same territory, arising from the superior cerebellar artery (SCA) which they believed anastomosed with the ADS, later came to be known as the artery of Wollschlaeger and Wollschlaeger (AWW) in their honor [
3‐
6]. …