Lecture 6 - Cerebral Vasculature Flashcards
Go to the last slide and label all of the arteries:
1 = Basilar artery
2 = Vertebral artery
3 = Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery (PICA)
4 = Anterior Spinal Artery
5 = Anterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery (AICA)
6 = Pontine artery
7 = Superior Cerebellar Artery
8 = Posterior Cerebral Artery
9 = Posterior Communicating Artery
10 = Middle Cerebral Artery (continuation of the ICA)
11 = Anterior Cerberal Artery
12 = Anterior Communicating Artery
What are the 2 main blood vessels that supply the brain with blood?
Anterior circulation from Internal Carotid Arteries
Posterior circulation from vertebral arteries
What part of the brain does the anterior brain circulation (ICA) supply?
Most of the cerebral hemispheres
What part of the brain does the posterior circulation supply (vertebral vessels)?
Brainstem
Cerebellum
Some temporal and occipital lobe
What are the 2main arteries of the anterior circulation?
Middle cerberal artery
Anterior cerberal artery
How does the middle cerebral artery travel?
Emerges laterally inferiorly and superiolry to the lateral/sylvian fissure
What part of the brain does the middle cerebral artery supply thinking about how it travels?
Travels along sylvian/lateral fissure supplying the majority of the LATERAL aspect of the cortex including the lateal parts of the parietal, frontal and SUPERIOR temporal lobe
What is the name of the arteries that branch off the middle cerebral arteries and travel to the internal capsule?
Lenticulostriate arteries
Also supplies lentiform nucleus and caudate
What arteries are most commonly occluded in a stroke?
What is this called?
Lenticulostriate arteries
Lacunar stroke
How does the anterior cerebral artery run/what part of the brain does it supply generally?
Runs in the midline supplying the MIDLINE structures
What parts of the brain does the anterior cerebral artery supply?
Corpus callosum
Medial aspect of frontal lobe
Medial aspect of parietal lobe
Where is the deficit likely to be experienced in an anterior cerebral artery occlusion?
Lower limb since lower limbs are represented medially on the homunculus
And the anterior cerebral artery supplies the midline of the brain
What cerebral artery is most at risk of compression in a subfalcine herniation?
Calcarine sulcus pushed into the flax cerebra can compress the ANTERIOR Cerebral Artery
What artery if occluded would put the primary motor and sensory cortex at risk?
Middle cerbral artery since it covers the central gurus
What artery if occluded can lead to both superior and inferior optic radiations being damaged?
Middle cerebral artery