title: Microsurgical study of the interpeduncular cistern and its communication with adjoining cisterns.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Investigating the structure, contents, location, and borders of interpeduncular cistern and its communications with adjoining cisterns.
  
  
  METHODS
  Microsurgical anatomy of the interpeduncular cistern was studied in 14 adult cadaver brains, using a surgical microscope(x3 to x40 magnification).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The interpeduncular cistern was divided into two portions: superficial (free) and deep (vascular). The superior wall of interpeduncular cistern was separated into the hypothalamic and mesencephalic part. It has communication with ambient, prepontine, carotid, cerebellopontine, oculomotor, and crural cisterns.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The interpeduncular cistern is a compound bulk structure. This classification is necessary for the quantitative and qualitative study of the interpeduncular anatomy. Also, it is necessary to neurosurgeons for the guiding line in this region.
authors.affiliation: East-Siberian Minimally Invasive Neurosurgical Center, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Post Box 64, Irkutsk 664047, Russia. sufianov@bk.ru
authors.forename: Albert Akramovich
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Sufianov
authors.forename: Galina Zinovievna
authors.initials: GZ
authors.lastname: Sufianova
authors.forename: Iurii Alekseevich
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Iakimov
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001099:Arachnoid / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000601:surgery*; D001344:Autopsy; D002102:Cadaver; D006801:Humans; D042282:Microdissection; D008866:Microsurgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D044583:Neuroendoscopy; D013346:Subarachnoid Space / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted; D055815:Young Adult