35-year-old woman presents to OPD with complains of headache after hitting her head accidentally with the wall while doing household chores . An MRI was ordered which confirmed presence of blood clot in the great cerebral vein of Galen. Obstructed vein is a direct tributary of which of the following venous structures?
Veins of the brain are direct tributaries of dural venous sinuses. Emissary veins connect dural venous sinuses with the veins of scalp; Pterygoid venous plexus communicates with cavernous sinus through an emissary vein; Diploic veins lie in channels in the diploe of skull and communicate with dural sinuses, veins of scalp, and meningeal veins.
Emissary veins
Pterygoid venous plexus
Diploic veins
Dural venous sinuses
Brainstem lesions and blood supply of CNS