Perforating Arteries of the Lemniscal Trigone: A Microsurgical Neuroanatomic Description

• Main Authors: Santino Ottavio Tomasi (Author), Giuseppe Emmanuele Umana (Author), Gianluca Scalia (Author), Roberto Luis Rubio-Rodriguez (Author), Giuseppe Raudino (Author), Julian Rechberger (Author), Philipp Geiger (Author), Bipin Chaurasia (Author), Kaan Yaǧmurlu (Author), Michael T. Lawton (Author), Peter A. Winkler (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The perforating arteries in the dorsolateral zone of the midbrain play a crucial role in the functions of the brain stem. Their damage due to herniation, pathological lesions, or surgery, favored by the narrow tentorial incisura, can lead to hemorrhages or ischemia and subsequently to se...