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The middle cerebral artery (MCA) is the larger of the two terminal branches of the internal carotid artery (ICA), supplying a big part of the cerebral hemispheres and basal ganglia. It can be divided into four segments (Figs. 5.1 and 5.2)
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Bradac, G.B. (2011). Middle Cerebral Artery. In: Cerebral Angiography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15678-6_5
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