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BLOOD SUPPLY
neuro module 2
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01/22/2010

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Term
What does the internal carotid supply?
Definition
1. dura
2. optic nerve and chiasm
3. internal capsule
4. eye (ophthalmic artery)
Term
Anterior cerebral artery supplies?
Definition
1. medial surface of hemispheres
2. corpus callosum
3. caudate
4. internal capsule
Term
Posterior cerebral artery supplies?
Definition
1. inferior surface of the temporal lobe
2. medial surface of occipital lobe
3. thalamus
4. choroid plexus
Term
middle cerebral artery supplies?
Definition
1. lateral surface of hemispheres
2. putamen/globus pallidus via lenticulostriate arteries (infarcts of these cause focal deficits)
3. internal capsule
Term
Circle of Willis supplies?
Definition
deep penetrating branches to the diencephalon
Term
anterior choroidal artery supplies?
Definition
-branch of IC
1. choroid plexus
2. hippocampus
3. amygdala
4. optic tract
5. lateral geniculate nucleus
6. loop of Meyer
7. globus pallidus
8. internal capsule
Term
posterior communicating artery supplies?
Definition
1. optic chiasm/tract
2. diencephalon
3. internal capsule
Term
What supplies the internal capsule?
Definition
5 arteries: IC, ACA, MCA, Ant. Choroidal, Post Comm
Term
what supplies the caudate?
Definition
MCA, ACA
Term
what supplies the putamen and globus pallidus?
Definition
Lenticulostriates (MCA), ant choroidal
Term
what supplies the thalamus?
Definition
PCA
Term
what supplies the hypothalamus?
Definition
PCA, post comm, ACA
Term
PICA and AICA supply?
Definition
inferior surface of cerebellum
brainstem
Term
superior cerebellar supply?
Definition
superior surface of cerebellum
deep nuclei of cerebellum
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