The anterior medullary-anterior pontomesencephalic venous system and its bridging veins communicating to the dural sinuses: Normal anatomy and drainage routes from dural arteriovenous fistulas

Neuroradiology

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1013-1023

  Kiyosue, Hiro ^a   Tanoue, Shuichi ^a   Sagara, Yoshiko ^a   Hori, Yuzo ^b   Okahara, Mika ^a   Kashiwagi, Junji ^a   Nagatomi, Hirofumi ^b   Mori, Hiromu ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nagatomi Neurosurgical Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiography; Cerebral vein; Dural arteriovenous fistula; MRI

Indexed keywords

GADODIAMIDE; GADOLINIUM CHELATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DRAIN; DURA MATER; DURAL ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS VENOSUS; VENOUS CIRCULATION;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN STEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; CEREBRAL VEINS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIAL SINUSES; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 56649124724     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-008-0433-3     Document Type: Article

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