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Cerebral Veins

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Applied Cerebral Angiography

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The very complex embryological evolution of the venous system of the brain has been largely studied by many authors (Evans 1912; Sabin 1917; Streeter 1918; Markowski 1922; Hochstetter 1938; Padget 1956, 1957; Kaplan and Ford 1966; Okudera et al. 1984). We summarize the essential points.

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Bradac, G.B. (2017). Cerebral Veins. In: Applied Cerebral Angiography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57228-4_9

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