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  2. Cisterna magna - Wikipedia

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    The cisterna magna (posterior cerebellomedullary cistern, [1] or cerebellomedullary cistern [2] [3]) is the largest of the subarachnoid cisterns.It occupies the space created by the angle between the caudal/inferior surface of the cerebellum, and the dorsal/posterior surface of the medulla oblongata (it is created by the arachnoidea that bridges this angle [3]).

  3. Subarachnoid cisterns - Wikipedia

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    Cisterna magna also called cerebellomedullary cistern - the largest of the subarachnoid cisterns. It lies between the cerebellum and the medulla oblongata. It receives CSF from the fourth ventricle via the median aperture (foramen of Magendie). The cisterna magna contains: The vertebral artery and the origin of the posterior inferior cerebellar ...

  4. Median aperture - Wikipedia

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    It allows the flow of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from the fourth ventricle into the cisterna magna. [2] [3] The other openings of the fourth ventricle are the lateral apertures - one on either side. [4] The median aperture varies in size but accounts for most of the outflow of CSF from the fourth ventricle. [1]

  5. Quadrigeminal cistern - Wikipedia

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    The quadrigeminal cistern [1] (also cistern of great cerebral vein, [1] vein of Galen cistern, [2] superior cistern, [2] [3] Bichat's canal, [3] or peripineal cistern [2]) is a subarachnoid cistern situated between splenium of corpus callosum, and the superior surface of the cerebellum.

  6. Suboccipital puncture - Wikipedia

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    This is an exceedingly rare procedure. When CSF cannot be obtained from the lumbar space (and when its analysis is considered critical to treatment), a cisternal tap may be required. The needle is placed in the midline, passing just under the occipital bone, into the (usually large) cisterna magna (Fig. 23-2).

  7. Ambient cistern - Wikipedia

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    Each ambient cistern extends anterolaterally around the mesencephalon to become continuous rostrally/anteriorly with the interpeduncular cistern. [2] Each ambient cistern is continuous dorsally/posteriorly with the quadrigeminal cistern; [3] [4] inversely, each ambient cistern is an anterolateral extension of the quadrigeminal cistern on either side [2] (some sources define the quadrigeminal ...

  8. Dandy–Walker malformation - Wikipedia

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    The authors noted that this form would previously have been classified as simply mega–cisterna magna. [ 2 ] [ 6 ] In 1999, Calabró et al. first used the phrase Dandy–Walker continuum when referring to proposals that a condition known as Blake's pouch cyst falls under the umbrella of the Dandy–Walker complex proposed by Barkovich. [ 3 ]

  9. Fourth ventricle - Wikipedia

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    Fourth ventricle location shown in red (E), pons (B); the floor of the ventricle is to the right, the roof to the left. The fourth ventricle has a roof at its upper (posterior) surface and a floor at its lower (anterior) surface, and side walls formed by the cerebellar peduncles (nerve bundles joining the structure on the posterior side of the ventricle to the structures on the anterior side).