Occipital sinus information

The occipital sinus is the smallest of the dural venous sinuses. It is usually unpaired, and is sometimes altogether absent. It is situated in the attached...

and occipital sinus. It is below the internal occipital protuberance of the skull. It drains venous blood from the brain into the transverse sinuses. It...

The dural venous sinuses (also called dural sinuses, cerebral sinuses, or cranial sinuses) are venous sinuses (channels) found between the endosteal and...

Ethmoid bone Sphenoid bone Occipital bone Frontal bone Temporal bone Occipital sinus Superior sagittal sinus Superior petrosal sinus Foramen cecum Optic foramen...

surface of the occipital bone. They drain from the confluence of sinuses (by the internal occipital protuberance) to the sigmoid sinuses, which ultimately...

attached margin of this falx is the occipital sinus, which is sometimes duplicated. In the upper part of the internal occipital crest, a small depression is...

the venous system including the suboccipital venous plexus, occipital sinus and sigmoid sinus. It is not always present, and can have variations of being...

magnum. The occipital sinus is contained within the posterior extremity of the falx cerebelli where it attaches to the internal occipital crest. In its...

cruciate eminence of the occipital lobe. Near the internal occipital protuberance, it drains into the confluence of sinuses and deviates to either side...

straight sinus and the internal cerebral veins. The inferior cerebellar veins drain to the transverse sinus, the superior petrosal sinus, and the occipital sinus...

formed called the internal occipital protuberance. From each side of this eminence runs a groove for the transverse sinuses. There are two midline skull...

either the sigmoid sinus, or the jugular bulb. It communicates with the basilar venous plexus anteriorly, and the occipital sinus posteriorly (the posterior...

sphenoid sinuses may extend into the roots of the pterygoid processes or greater wings of sphenoid bone, and may invade the basilar part of the occipital bone...

The groove for transverse sinus is a groove which runs along the internal surface of the occipital bone, running laterally between the superior and inferior...

temporal bone and occipital bone, and converges with the inferior petrosal sinuses to form the internal jugular vein. : 795–6  Each sigmoid sinus begins beneath...

venous sinuses Transverse sinus Confluence of sinuses Marginal sinus Occipital sinus Petrosquamous sinus Sigmoid sinus Superior sagittal sinus Inferior...

attached margin of this falx is the occipital sinus, which is sometimes duplicated. In the upper part of the internal occipital crest, a small depression is...

venous sinuses Transverse sinus Confluence of sinuses Marginal sinus Occipital sinus Petrosquamous sinus Sigmoid sinus Superior sagittal sinus Inferior...

straight sinus. Sagittal section of the skull, showing the sinuses of the dura. Human brain dura mater (reflections) Dural venous sinuses Occipital sinus Superficial...

posterior border and transmits a vein to the transverse sinus and a small branch of the occipital artery to the dura mater. The position and size of this...

posterior intercavernous sinuses. Falx cerebelli, which separates the left and right cerebellar hemispheres and contains the occipital sinus. In pathological...

barosinusitis, sinus squeeze or sinus barotrauma is a painful inflammation and sometimes bleeding of the membrane of the paranasal sinus cavities, normally...

of the occipital bones to the jugular foramen, where the sigmoid sinus becomes the internal jugular vein. Note that a superior petrosal sinus enters the...

temporal bone with the basilar part of the occipital bone. It begins below and behind the cavernous sinus and, passing through the anterior part of the...

sinuses and superior petrosal sinus (here, the two layers of the tentorium diverge to embrace the sinuses);: 440  it thus attaches onto the occipital...

or basilar sinus) consists of several interlacing venous channels between the layers of the dura mater over the basilar part of the occipital bone (the...

bone and the occipital bone. It allows many structures to pass, including the inferior petrosal sinus, three cranial nerves, the sigmoid sinus, and meningeal...

transverse sinus. Human skull. Internal occipital protuberance shown in red. Parietal bones and temporal bones are removed. External occipital protuberance...

margins of this surface are faint grooves for the inferior petrosal sinuses. Occipital bone. Basilar part shown in red. Human skull seen from below. Basilar...