Fetal Origin of the Posterior Cerebral Artery – My Brain MRI
History: Radiology resident being scanned for a physics lesson has an incidental finding. This is my brain MRI! The finding is called a fetal origin of the posterior cerebral artery, and it occurs when the embryonic form of the posterior cerebral artery fails to regress. It is a normal variant that occurs on either side […]
Coronary Artery Disease – Noncalcified Plaque
History: 55 year old male with a history of diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia with atypical chest pain. On additional images, this patient had a paucity of calcified plaque (his Agatston score placed him at a very low risk for a major cardiac episode) and the majority of his coronary artery disease consisted of noncalcified atherosclerotic […]