Volume : VII, Issue : IX, September - 2017

CADAVERIC STUDY ON BASILAR ARTERY AND ITS VARIATIONS IN OUR REGION

Muthuraman Pichaiah, Dhandayuthapani Velautham Pillai

Abstract :

 Basilar artery is the main artery of posterior circulation with complex position for surgical approach and with considerable variations. The surgical approach is complicated due to the compact bony structures and the vital neural structures attached to basilar artery like ain stem and the complex cisterns and complex vascular structure like perforating anches and the twisting of the vessels around the cranial nerves. Aim of the study is to document the microsurgical anatomy of the basilar artery and its variations which may coincide with the western literature studies compare to our region

MATERIALS

             50 Cadavers from the Forensic medicine Department, Thanjavur Medical College were included in the study after getting the legal and academic approval.

 inclusion criteria:  all nontruama cadavers.

 The exclusion criteria: death due to head injuries, murder.

 

RESULT OF THE STUDY

                        The origin of basilar artery was at pontomedullary junction commonly coinciding with the lower border of clivus, in pontomedullary citern. The Straight course of the basilar artery maintained in 60% of specimen. If tortuous the bifurcation moves little above and to the diapharma sellae. All the Branches of the basilar artery well studied and all the anches were present except the left AICA absent in one specimen. The posterior cereal artery was larger in diameter compare to previous studies by one mm.

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Muthuraman Pichaiah, Dhandayuthapani Velautham Pillai, CADAVERIC STUDY ON BASILAR ARTERY AND ITS VARIATIONS IN OUR REGION, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-9 | September-2017

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