Morphological features of the arteries of the brainstem of the human at a mature age

Abstract

A lot of data on the arteries of the human brainstem have been published in literature in recent years. Most of them concern the sources of its blood supply. Analysis of the literature data shows us that the extraorgan part of the arteries of the human brainstem have been studied quite enough. The issue of branching arteries of the second and third order is still controversial. As for the age characteristics of the arteries, we also did not find enough literature data. As objects of research in this work, we used 54 preparations of the brainstem with arteries of people of different sexes and mature age who died not from pathologies associated with cerebral vessels. Preparations were from the cadaveric material of the Department of Human Anatomy of the Kharkiv National Medical University.