Byung-Kyu Cho ● Teiji Tominaga
Editors

2010

It has been half a century since Takeuchi K. and Shimizu K. first reported a new entity of vascular disease in 1957 that they called “hypogenesis of bilateral internal carotid arteries.” The name “moyamoya disease” (MMD) was coined by Suzuki J. and Takaku A. in 1969, after the characteristic angiographic finding that showed abnormal vascular networks around the occluded distal internal carotid artery looking like a puff of smoke (moyamoya in Japanese).