title: Vascular anatomy of the spinal cord.
abstract: Knowledge of spinal cord vascular anatomy is essential to the neurosurgeon planning and undertaking procedures on vascular lesions of the spinal cord. This article relates general concepts and nomenclature regarding this unique circulation and describes the regional and segmental arterial and venous anatomy of the spinal cord. The article concludes with surgical considerations and recommendations based on this anatomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Medical School, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.
authors.forename: W E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Krauss
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008833:Microcirculation; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000098:blood supply*