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Common Locations for Cardiac and Other Emboli - Posterior Circulation

PCA - Proximal Stem
Clinical Example

 

PCA - Distal Branch
Clinical Example

 

Top of the Basilar
Clinical Example 1
Clinical Example 2

 

PICA
Clinical Example

 

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Ischemic strokes are frequently caused by emboli. Emboli have a propensity to lodge in certain areas. In the right vertebral artery angiogram shown above, the most common locations for emboli in the posterior circulation are shown. PICA = posterior inferior cerebellar artery, PCA = posterior communicating artery.

Revised 11/29/06.
Copyrighted 2006. David C Preston, MD