Anatomy and Approaches to the Ventricles
Subspecialty: Neuro-anatomy
Type: Clinical Summary
The ventricular venous system is a compact, subependymal network that drains the thalami, basal ganglia, internal capsule, corpus callosum, fornix, septum pellucidum and adjacent white matter; its anatomy determines the safety of intraventricular and deep-brain surgical approaches and the mechanism of deep venous infarction. This review summarizes the microsurgical anatomy of the ventricular veins, their relationships to the lateral ventricles and choroid plexus, the configuration of the velum interpositum, and the principal drainage routes into the internal cerebral veins, basal vein and grea…
Source Papers
- THE CEREBRAL VEINS (2002)