anterior choroidal artery

Origin

• internal carotid artery
• rarely middle cerebral artery

Distribution

• choroid plexus in inferior horn of lateral ventricle & 3rd ventricles
• optic chiasm & tract
• uncus
• amygdala
• hippocampus
• globus pallidus
• caudate nucleus (tail)
• thalamus
  • lateral geniculate nucleus
  • other nuclei
• tuber cinereum
• hypothalamic nucleus
• substantia nigra
• red nucleus
• crus cerebri
• internal capsule
  • ventral part
  • genu, posterior limb & retrolentiform limb

More general terms

• artery