Evaluation by angiography of the lateral dominance of the drainage of the dural venous sinuses

Abstract

Venous drainage dominance of the dural venous sinuses may be defined as the drainage only or mainly into one of the transverse sinuses, as shown by bilateral carotid angiography. The aim of this study was to evaluate the venous drainage dominance in bilateral carotid angiograms of 189 cases retrospectively. Among these cases 41.3% showed drainage mainly to the right side, 37.6% showed equal drainage to each side, 18.5% showed drainage mainly to the left side, 2.1% showed drainage only to the right side and 0.53% showed drainage only to the left side. Cerebral venous drainage dominance is of great importance and should be considered before operations on patients for radical neck dissection, removal of tumors in the neck that invade the internal jugular vein or tumors of the glomus jugulare which may require ligation of the internal jugular vein.

Differences between Internal Jugular Vein and Vertebral Vein Flow Examined in Real Time with the Use of Multigate Ultrasound Color Doppler

“…23 Again, in accordance with the previous studies, we found a right IJV outflow dominance. A large intersubject variability was also seen in cerebral blood outflow, as has been reported in other studies.…”

Concomitant Analysis of Arterial, Venous, and CSF Flows using Phase-Contrast MRI: A Quantitative Comparison Between MS Patients and Healthy Controls

“…22,23 Contribution of venous accessory drainage pathways has been neglected in the CCSVI definition, except for the vertebral vein. Although initially described as accessory, the secondary venous pathways, namely epidural vein, vertebral vein, and deep cervical vein, are now recognized to represent a significant fraction of the venous cranial drainage, depending on posture (sitting or standing position, in which the jugular veins collapse) or on intrathoracic pressure.…”

Paleoneurology of Two New Neandertal Occipitals from El Sidrón (Asturias, Spain) in the Context of Homo Endocranial Evolution

“…These studies, however, have been carried out with diverse populations and using different protocols, which make the standardization of the results difficult (Knott, 1881;Okudera et al, 1994;Kobayashi et al, 2006). Sorting of the impressions left by the sinuses has been assessed by distinct methodologies (Dumont, 1894;Le Double, 1903;Mannu, 1907;Testut, 1911Testut, , 1921Edwards, 1931;Woodhall and Seeds, 1936;Browing, 1953;Browder and Kaplan, 1976;Dora and Zileli, 1980;Capra and Anderson, 1984;Bisaria, 1985;Durgun et al, 1993;Singh et al, 2004;Widjaja and Griffiths, 2004;Das et al, 2008), including (1) direct observation on the bone surface, (2) studying the sinuses in corpses, and (3) currently through in vivo magnetic resonance venographies. When dealing with fossil specimens, it is difficult to strictly follow one of these classifications of the sinus drainage pattern due to the fragmentary state of fossil skulls, as well as the fact that the cranial blood drainage has been described and classified following different standards.…”