Clinical Anatomy of Space Occupying Lesions

Question 1

What artery crosses over the deep aspect of the Pterion?

Answer 1

middle meningeal artery

Question 2

What is the tantrum cerebelli?

Answer 2

tough sheets of dura mata

covers cerebellum

Question 3

What is the falx cerebelli?

Answer 3

midline structures made from dura mater

this separates the 2 hemispheres

Question 4

What absorbs CFS?

Answer 4

Arachnoid mater - granulations

Question 5

What does a compression of the occulomotor nerve by an urical herniation result in?

Answer 5

ipsilateral fixed pupil

Question 6

At what level do you perform lumbar puncture?

Answer 6

L3/L4

Question 7

What is the route of the right vertebral artery?

Answer 7

transverse foramina through foramina magnum

Question 8

what drains blood from the brain to the dural venous sinuses?

Answer 8

cerebral veins

Question 9

What drains to the internal jugular foramen?

Answer 9

left sigmoid sinuses

Question 10

what is found at the midline @ internal occipital protuberance?

Answer 10

confluences of sinuses