Confluence of sinuses

Confluence of sinuses
Vein: Confluence of sinuses
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Dural veins. (Labeled with "confluens sinuum")
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Sagittal section of the skull, showing the sinuses of the dura. (Labeled with "torcula herophili".)
Latin confluens sinuum, torcula herophili
Gray's subject #171 658
Source superior sagittal sinus, straight sinus, occipital sinus
Drains to transverse sinuses
MeSH Cranial+Sinuses

The confluence of sinuses or torcular herophili is the connecting point of the superior sagittal sinus, straight sinus, and occipital sinus. It is found deep to the occipital protuberance of the skull. Blood arriving at this point then proceeds to drain into the left and right transverse sinuses. The superior sagittal sinus often drains into (either exclusively or predominantly) one transverse sinus, and the occipital sinus drains into the other.

An older term often used for the confluence of sinuses "torcular herophili", describes the veins as a gutter, or canal, and honors Herophilos, the Greek anatomist who was the first to use cadavers for the systematic study of anatomy. This term more precisely refers to the concavity in the bone which is the location of the confluence of sinuses[1]

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References

  1. ^ Tubbs, R.S. Neuroanatomy, 2002:1, 14
v · d · eVeins (emissary, jugular and others) of head and neck (drainage patterns can vary) (TA A12.3.04–06, GA 7.644)
External jugular
Direct
Internal jugular

Superficial cerebral veins: superior · superficial middle · inferior  · inferior anastomotic (Labbé)  · superior anastomotic (Trolard)

Deep cerebral veins: great · internal (basal, deep middle, superior thalamostriate)
To COS
To CS
To IJV
Direct
Brachiocephalic
Direct

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