Sphenoidal artery: review of the literature and analysis of a dissected arterially injected fetal orbit
| Autor: | E. Leon Kier, Gerald Conlogue, Amit Mahajan |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Sphenoidal artery
Middle meningeal artery Dissection (medical) Review Middle cranial fossa Superior orbital fissure Pathology and Forensic Medicine 03 medical and health sciences Ophthalmic Artery 0302 clinical medicine Fetus medicine.artery Hyrtl canal Sphenoid Bone medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging 0303 health sciences Cranial Fossa Middle business.industry Dissection Anatomy medicine.disease Meningeal Arteries Skull medicine.anatomical_structure 030301 anatomy & morphology Surgery Fetal Skull business Ophthalmic artery orbit Orbit 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Artery Orbit (anatomy) |
| Zdroj: | Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy |
| ISSN: | 1279-8517 0930-1038 |
| Popis: | PurposeThe sphenoidal artery is considered a component of the complex and dangerous arterial anastomoses of the human orbitocranial region, particularly with the advent of interventional neuroimaging. The objective of this publication was to analyze the various descriptions of the sphenoidal artery in the literature as related to relevant photographs of a dissected arterially injected fetal middle cranial fossa and orbit.MethodsPublications dealing with middle meningeal-ophthalmic arterial anastomoses, focusing on the sphenoidal artery, were reviewed. A relevant dissection of a fetal specimen was analyzed.ResultsThe literature dealing with the sphenoidal artery is at times not in agreement. The nomenclature and anatomy of its passage through the superior orbital fissure or Hyrtl canal have variable descriptions. Photographs of the skull base of a dissected arterially injected fetal specimen show bilateral prominent orbital branches of the middle meningeal arteries. These branches entered both orbits in a course similar to the diagrammatic representations of the sphenoidal artery, and give rise to several major intraorbital arteries. This study provides the only photographic image in the literature of this variation in a human fetal anatomic dissection.ConclusionsReview of the literature dealing with the sphenoidal artery shows inconsistent nomenclature and conflicting descriptions of its anastomotic connections, and varying evolutionary and embryologic theories. Analysis of the dissected fetal skull base indicates that the sphenoidal artery is not a distinct artery but just a middle meningeal orbital arterial branch, an important component of the complex and dangerous arterial anastomoses of the human orbitocranial region. |
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