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22 Cards in this Set
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What is unique about cerebral veins?
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They don't follow arteries; they cross borders between neighboring arterial territories.
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What drains upward from frontal, parietal, and occipital lobes into the superior sagittal sinus?
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Superior cerebral veins
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What drains into the transverse and petrosal sinuses from the temporal and occipital lobes?
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Inferior cerebral veins
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What large vein sits in the Lateral fissure and drains anteriorly into the cavernous sinus?
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Superficial middle cerebral vein
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What runs along the central sulcus and connects the SMCV to superior sagittal sinus?
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Superior anastomotic vein (of trolard)
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What runs diagnoally across the temporal lobe and connects the SMCV to the transverse sinus?
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Inferior anastomic vein (of Labbe)
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What pair of veins runs overtop the Thalamus and drains into the vein of galen?
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Internal cerebral veins
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What veins run along the base of the cerebrum to drain the orbit, insula and med temporal lobe?
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Basal veins (of rosenthal)
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Where do the Basal veins ultimately dump into?
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Vein of galan
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What short fat vein is located in the midline below the splenium of corpus callosum?
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Great cerebral vein of Galen
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Where does the Great vein of galen drain into?
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The Straight Sinus
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Between what 2 layers are the Venous Sinuses located?
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Between the periosteal and meningeal layers of Dura Mater
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What venous sinus is located in the midline along the superior margin of the falx?
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Superior sagittal sinus
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What venous sinus is located at the midline junction of the posterior falx and tentorium?
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Straight sinus
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What are the venous sinuses that run from the sinus confluence anterolaterally in each lateral tentorium?
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The transverse sinuses
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Where do the sagittal and straight sinuses drain into?
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The sinus confluence
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Where do the inferior cerebral veins and superior petrosal sinus drain?
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Into the transverse sinuses
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Where do the transverse sinuses drain?
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Into the sigmoid sinus
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Where does the sigmoid sinus drain?
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Into the internal jugular vein
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What is the network of venous channels that surrounds sella turcica?
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The cavernous sinus
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What vein drains into the cavernous sinuses?
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The superficial middle cerebral vein from the lateral fissure
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What does the cavernous sinus drain into posteriorly? Anteriorly?
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Posteriorly: petrosal sinuses
Anteriorly: pterygoid plexus |