CNS Vasculature Flashcards
What comprises the circle of Willis
Internal Carotid Artery
Anterior Cerebral Artery
Anterior Communicating Artery
Posterior Communication
Posterior Cerebral Artery
What are the branches of ICA?
Opthalmic Artery
Posterior Communicating Artery
Anterior Choroidal Artery
Anterior Cerebral Artery
Middle Cerebral Artery
What blood vessels supply the cerebral cortex?
Anterior Cerebral Artery
Middle Cerebral Artery
Posterior Cerebral Artery
What blood vessels supply the corpus stiatum?
Middle Cerebral Artery & Anterior Cerebral Artery
What blood vessels supply the neural retina
Central retinal artery
What blood vessels supply the thalamus?
Posterior Cerebral Artery
Posterior Communicating artery
Anterior Choroidal Arteries
What blood vessels supply the midbrain?
Posterior cerebral artery
Basilar Artery
What blood vessels supply the pons?
Basilar artery
What blood vessels supply the medulla?
Basilar artery
Vertebral artery
What blood vessels supply the Cerebellum?
Superior Cerebellar Arteries
Anterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery (AICA)
Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery
What blood vessels supply the spinal cord?
anterior spinal artery
Posterior spinal artery
What are basilar branches?
Superior cerebellar artery
Anterior inferior cerebellar artery
Where is posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) derived
Vertebral artery
What does MCA specifically supply?
Lateral Surface of Hemisphere
Medial cortex of temporal pole
EXCEPT dorsal ridge, occipital lobe, inferior lateral temporal lobe
What does the ACA supply specifically?
Supplies dorsal ridge of lateral hemisphere & dorsal part of medial hemisphere up to parietal-occipital sulcus