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Specimens obtained from 50 cats (Felis domestica), provided the material for a study in comparative anatomy of the superficial bulbar veins. The work forms part of a larger study of the brain-stem circulation in Man.—Anterior and posterior networks make up the superficial bulbar veins. Each may be subdivided into lateral and median components. There are important anastomotic channels between these networks forming a complex network over the lateral aspects of the medulla. These veins become confluent caudally with the spinal venous circulation, and rostrally with the pontine venous circulation, so acting as a watershed between the two circulations.
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Contribution of the 1st European Colloquium for Neuroradiology, September 1969 Colmar
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Koritke, J.G., Maillot, C. & Tournade, A. The superficial bulbar veins. Neuroradiology 1, 47–51 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00347660
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00347660