NM Blood Supply

Question 1

What arteries branch off the vertebral arteries?

Answer 1

Anterior and posterior spinal artery

PICA

Question 2

What do the ant and post spinal arteries supply?

Answer 2

S.C. and medulla

Question 3

What does the PICA supply?

Answer 3

Medulla and cerebellum

Question 4

What branches off the basilar artery?

Answer 4

AICA
Superior cerebellar artery
PCA
Posterior choroidal artery

Question 5

What does the AICA and Superior Cerebellar Artery supply?

Answer 5

Cerebellum

Pons

Question 6

What does the PCA supply?

Answer 6

Occipital lobe
Inferomedial temporal lobe
Midbrain

Question 7

What does the posterior choroidal artery supply?

Answer 7

Choroidal plexus of third ventricle

Parts of thalamus and hypothalamus

Question 8

What arteries branch off internal carotid artery?

Answer 8

Anterior choroidal
ACA
MCA

Question 9

What does the anterior choroidal artery supply?

Answer 9

Chorus plexus in lateral ventricles
Optic tract
Parts of putamen, thalamus, internal capsule and hippocampus

Question 10

What does the ACA supply?

Answer 10

Medial frontal and parietal lobes

Question 11

What does the MCA supply?

Answer 11

Lateral hemispheres
Globus pallidus
Putamen
Parts of internal capsule and caudate

Question 12

Medial medullary syndrome is due to what?

Answer 12

Occlusion of vertebral anterior branch of LOWER BASILAR ARTERY

Question 13

Lateral medullary syndrome is also known as what?

What is occluded?

Answer 13

Wallenberg syndrome

Occlusion if vertebral, PICA, or basilar artery

Question 14

Basilar artery syndrome results in _______ and _____ signs

Answer 14

Brainstem

PCA

Question 15

Basilar artery syndrome is also known as what?

Answer 15

Locked in syndrome - when there is basilar artery occlusion at the PONS

Question 16

Medial inferior pontine syndrome is occlusion of what?

Answer 16

Occlusion of paramedian branch of basilar artery

Question 17

Lateral inferior pontine syndrome is occlusion of what?

Answer 17

AICA

Question 18

PCA syndrome is occlusion to _____ and ______

What do these arteries supply?

Answer 18

PCA and PcommA
Midbrain
Temporal lobe
Diencephalon
Posterior 1/3 of cortex