The Superficial Veins of the Human Brain: Veins of the Brain Stem and of the Base of the Brain

Interest in a detailed anatomical description our knowledge of the venous system has of the veins of the human brain is of fairly been advanced more by radiological than by recent date. The general layout of the dural anatomical methods. This is due to the diffi- culty of obtaining a post-mortem display of sinuses and of the large encephalic veins the veins. Injection techniques often give de- that drain into them has long been known, ceptive results; most authors use back-flow but a more d...