Lecture 6 - Cerebral Vasculature Flashcards

1
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Go to the last slide and label all of the arteries:

A

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

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2
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What are the 2 main blood vessels that supply the brain with blood?

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Anterior circulation from Internal Carotid Arteries

Posterior circulation from vertebral arteries

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3
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What part of the brain does the anterior brain circulation (ICA) supply?

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Most of the cerebral hemispheres

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What part of the brain does the posterior circulation supply (vertebral vessels)?

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Brainstem
Cerebellum
Some temporal and occipital lobe

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5
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What are the 2main arteries of the anterior circulation?

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Middle cerberal artery
Anterior cerberal artery

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6
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How does the middle cerebral artery travel?

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Emerges laterally inferiorly and superiolry to the lateral/sylvian fissure

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7
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What part of the brain does the middle cerebral artery supply thinking about how it travels?

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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

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8
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What is the name of the arteries that branch off the middle cerebral arteries and travel to the internal capsule?

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Lenticulostriate arteries

Also supplies lentiform nucleus and caudate

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9
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What arteries are most commonly occluded in a stroke?
What is this called?

A

Lenticulostriate arteries

Lacunar stroke

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10
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How does the anterior cerebral artery run/what part of the brain does it supply generally?

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Runs in the midline supplying the MIDLINE structures

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11
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What parts of the brain does the anterior cerebral artery supply?

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Corpus callosum
Medial aspect of frontal lobe
Medial aspect of parietal lobe

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12
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Where is the deficit likely to be experienced in an anterior cerebral artery occlusion?

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Lower limb since lower limbs are represented medially on the homunculus

And the anterior cerebral artery supplies the midline of the brain

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13
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What cerebral artery is most at risk of compression in a subfalcine herniation?

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Calcarine sulcus pushed into the flax cerebra can compress the ANTERIOR Cerebral Artery

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14
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What artery if occluded would put the primary motor and sensory cortex at risk?

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Middle cerbral artery since it covers the central gurus

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15
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What artery if occluded can lead to both superior and inferior optic radiations being damaged?

A

Middle cerebral artery

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16
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What forms the basilar artery?

A

Confluence of the vertebral arteries

17
Q

What is formed from the bifurcation of the basilar artery?

A

Posterior Cerebral Artery

18
Q

What does the posterior cerebral artery supply?

A

Occipital lobe
Inferior temporal lobe
Thalamus
MIDBRAIN en passant

19
Q

What connects the posterior cerebral artery to the middle cerebral artery?

A

Posterior communicating artery

20
Q

What does the superior Cerebellar artery supply?

A

Superior aspect of cerebellum and midbrain en passant

21
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What do the pontine arteries supply?

A

Pons including ht descending corticospinal fibres

22
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What does the anterior inferior Cerebellar artery supply?

A

Anteroinferior aspect of the cerebellum and lateral pons en passant

23
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How does the posterior cerebral artery run?

A

Loops around the midbrain running along the inferior surface of posterior hemisphere

24
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What are the 2 main arteries supplying the midbrain?

A

Posterior cerebral artery
Superior Cerebellar artery

25
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What disease can be caused by the pontine arteries being occluded and why?

A

Locked in syndrome

Corticospinal tract supplied by the pontine arteries

Eye moment is sparred since midbrain blood supply is fine

26
Q

What are the 2 main branches of the vertebral arteries that supply the brain?

A

Anterior spinal arteries

Posterior inferior Cerebellar arteries

27
Q

What does the posterior inferior Cerebellar arteries supply?

A

Postero-inferior aspect of the cerebellum en passant

28
Q

What part of the spinal cord does the anterior spinal artery supply?

A

Anterior 2/3s of spinal cord

Grey matter of ventral horns, cortical spinal tract and spinothalamic tract

29
Q

What part of the spinal cord does the posterior spinal artery supply?

A

Dorsal column and most of teh dorsal horns

30
Q

What artery do the thalmoperforator and thalmogeniculate arteries come from to supply the thalamus?

A

Posterior Cerebral Artery