Dural venous sinuses
Dr Yuranga Weerakkody and Dr Frank Gaillard et al.
The dural venous sinuses are a venous channels located intracranially between the two layers of dura mater (endosteal layer and meningeal layer). They can be conceptualised as trapped epidural veins.
Together they form the major draining pathways from the brain, predominantly to the internal jugular veins.
The main dural venous sinuses are:
- superior sagittal sinus
- inferior sagittal sinus
- transverse sinus
- sigmoid sinus
- inferior petrosal sinus
- superior petrosal sinus
- cavernous sinus
- occipital sinus
- sphenoparietal sinus
- intercavernous sinus
- basilar venous plexus
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