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Vascular Supply and Territories of the Cerebellum

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Handbook of the Cerebellum and Cerebellar Disorders

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Within the posterior circulation, brain and vascular structures are characterized as involving the proximal, middle, and distal posterior circulation territories (Caplan 1996; Caplan 2000; Caplan et al. 2004, 2005; Chaves et al. 1994; Savitz and Caplan 2005). The proximal intracranial posterior circulation territory includes regions supplied by the intracranial vertebral arteries (ICVAs) – the medulla oblongata and the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA)-supplied region of the cerebellum. The ICVAs join at the medullo-pontine junction to form the basilar artery (BA). The middle intracranial posterior circulation territory includes the portion of the brain supplied by the BA up to its superior cerebellar artery (SCA) branches – the pons and the anterior inferior cerebellar artery (AICA)-supplied portions of the cerebellum. The BA divides to form the two posterior cerebral arteries (PCAs) at the junction between the pons and the midbrain, just beyond the origins of the superior cerebellar arteries (SCAs). The distal intracranial posterior circulation territory includes all of the territory supplied by the rostral BA and its SCA, PCA, and their penetrating artery branches – midbrain, thalamus, SCA-supplied cerebellum, and PCA territories. This distribution is shown diagrammatically in Fig. 24.1

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  1. Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Palmer 127 West Campus, Boston, MA, 02215, USA

    Dr. Louis Caplan

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  1. Unité d'Etude du Mouvement (UEM), FNRS, Neurologie ULB Erasme, Bruxelles, Belgium

    Mario Manto

  2. Ataxia Unit, Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology Unit, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Jeremy D. Schmahmann

  3. Neuroscience Institute of the Cavalieri-Ottolenghi Foundation (NICO), University of Turin, Orbassano, Turin, Italy

    Ferdinando Rossi

  4. Molecular and Integrative Neuroscience Department (MIND), The Scripps Research Institute, California, CA, USA

    Donna L. Gruol

  5. Department of Integrative Physiolgy, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

    Noriyuki Koibuchi

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Caplan, L. (2013). Vascular Supply and Territories of the Cerebellum. In: Manto, M., Schmahmann, J.D., Rossi, F., Gruol, D.L., Koibuchi, N. (eds) Handbook of the Cerebellum and Cerebellar Disorders. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1333-8_17

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