Acute Onset of Hypersomnolence and Aphasia Secondary to an Artery of Percheron Infarct and a Proposed Emergency Room Evaluation

Artery of Percheron (AOP) is a rare anatomical variant, which supplies bilateral paramedian thalami and the rostral mesencephalon via a single dominant thalamic perforating artery arising from the P1 segment of a posterior cerebral artery. AOP infarcts can present with a plethora of neurological sym...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tamra Ranasinghe, SoHyun Boo, Amelia Adcock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2019-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Emergency Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/1260865