Rolandic Anatomy

Posterior Communicating Artery

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Posterior circulation connector arising from the internal carotid artery and joining the posterior cerebral artery. Critical collateral vessel in the Circle of Willis; aneurysms here commonly compress the oculomotor nerve.

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