Cerebellar veins

Veins that drain the cerebellum

Cerebellar veins
Corresponding arterial circulation of the cerebellum (AICA and PICA).
Veins and plexa of the cerebellum seen.
Details
Drains from	cerebellum
Drains to	dural venous sinuses
Artery	anterior inferior cerebellar artery (AICA), posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA)
Identifiers
Latin	venae cerebelli
TA98	A12.3.06.056
TA2	4935
FMA	70879
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

The cerebellar veins are veins which drain the cerebellum. They consist of the superior cerebellar veins and the inferior cerebellar veins (dorsal cerebellar veins). The superior cerebellar veins drain to the straight sinus and the internal cerebral veins. The inferior cerebellar veins drain to the transverse sinus, the superior petrosal sinus, and the occipital sinus.

Structure

The superior cerebellar veins pass partly forward and medialward, across the superior cerebellar vermis. They end in the straight sinus,^[1] and the internal cerebral veins, partly lateralward to the transverse and superior petrosal sinuses.

The inferior cerebellar veins are larger. They end in the transverse sinus,^[2] the superior petrosal sinus, and the occipital sinus.

Clinical significance

The cerebellar veins may be affected by infarction or thrombosis.^[3] They may be the draining site of abnormal fistulas.^[4]

Additional images

Diagram of the arterial circulation at the base of the brain.
Sagittal section of the cerebellum, near the junction of the vermis with the hemisphere. (Veins not visible, but regions can be seen).

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

^ Drake, Richard L. (2005). Gray's anatomy for students. Wayne Vogl, Adam W. M. Mitchell, Henry Gray. Philadelphia: Elsevier / Churchill Livingstone. p. 795. ISBN 0-443-06612-4. OCLC 55139039.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
^ Scremin, Oscar U. (2015). "31 - Cerebral Vascular System". The Rat Nervous System (4th ed.). Academic Press. pp. 985–1011. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-374245-2.00031-0. ISBN 978-0-12-374245-2.
^ Bousser, Marie-Germaine; Barnett, Henry J. M. (2004). "12 - Cerebral Venous Thrombosis". Stroke - Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management (4th ed.). Churchill Livingstone. pp. 301–325. doi:10.1016/B0-44-306600-0/50016-X. ISBN 978-0-443-06600-9.
^ Cole, Tyler S.; Lawton, Michael T. (2021). "8 - Surgical management of cerebral dural arteriovenous fistulas". Cerebral Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas. Academic Press. pp. 105–124. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-819525-3.00010-1. ISBN 978-0-12-819525-3. S2CID 242605747.

External links

http://neuroangio.org/venous-brain-anatomy/veins-posterior-fossa/

Veins of the head and neck

External jugular

Retromandibular	maxillary pterygoid plexus superficial temporal anterior auricular
Direct	posterior auricular transverse cervical suprascapular anterior jugular jugular venous arch

Internal jugular

Diploic/brain

Cerebral

Superficial:	superior superficial middle inferior inferior anastomotic (Labbé) superior anastomotic (Trolard)
Deep:	great internal basal deep middle superior thalamostriate choroid septal

Cerebellar

Sinuses

To COS	superior sagittal straight inferior sagittal occipital
To CS	sphenoparietal intercavernous superior ophthalmic ethmoidal central retinal nasofrontal vorticose veins inferior ophthalmic
To IJV	sigmoid: transverse petrosquamous superior petrosal inferior petrosal basilar plexus internal auditory veins condylar