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Compared to its predecessor, this new edition also includes figures relating to the superficial venous network of the brain stem, thus giving readers a more precise and complete view of the superficial brainstem vessels. It also includes a special study on the pineal or collicular region and a correlation between the vascular territories and MRI views of brainstem vascular diseases. The book provides a complete view of the vascularization of the brainstem in humans including the arteries, veins and capillary network, for the study of brainstem pathology. This book provides an overall view of the vascularization of the human brain stem. The first part of the book concerns the superficial ramifications of the arteries and veins, their points of penetration into the nervous tissue or emergence from it and their corresponding territories of distribution into the brain stem. A special study of the vascularization of the pineal gland region is joined to this part. The sedond part describes the fine internal vascular network and its correlation with the brain stem nervous structure. Finally, the vascular territories are compared with MRI views of brain stem infarction. This book will be of interest for all who work in the field of neuroscience but particularly neurologists, neurosurgeons and neuroradiologists concerned with the vascular diseases in the brain. The vascularization nerves are a ´map´to endoscopic neurosurgeons.

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Material and Methods.- A Survey of the Brain Stem Morphology.- I: Arteries and Veins of the Brain Stem.- General Arrangement of the Superficial Arteries and Veins of the Brain Stem.- Superficial Path and Internal Territories of Arteries and Veins of Medulla, Pons and Mesencephalon.- II: The Vascular Architecture of the Brain Stem.- III: An Introduction to the Localization of Brain Stem Infarction.- References.

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