The claustrum and its actuation grouping in the manlike brain: a microsurgical and tractographic expression study.

J Neurosurg. 2008 Apr;108(4):764-74

Authors: Fernández-Miranda JC, Rhoton AL, Kakizawa Y, Choi C, Alvarez-Linera J

Object The content in this think was to investigate the microsurgical and tractographic morphology of the claustrum and its actuation fibers, and to dissect the useful and preoperative implications of the findings. Methods Fifteen formalin-fixed manlike mentality hemispheres were compound using the Klingler material dissection technique, with the assistance of an operative microscope at x 6-40 magnification. Magnetic kinship imagery studies of 5 connatural brains were analyzed using dispersion tensor (DT) imaging-based tractography software. Results Both the claustrum and outside capsulise hit 2 parts: dorsal and ventral. The dorsal conception of the outside capsulise is mainly imperturbable of the claustrocortical fibers that meet into the wear concern of the dorsal claustrum. Results of the tractography studies coincided with the material dissection findings and showed that the claustrocortical fibers enter the claustrum with the crack frontal, precentral, postcentral, and hinder parietal cortices, and are topographically organized. The dorsoventral conception of the outside capsulise is bacilliform by the uncinate and base occipitofrontal fascicles, which cross the dorsoventral conception of the claustrum, conjunctive the orbitofrontal and prefrontal endocrine with the amygdaloid, temporal, and occipital cortices. The relation between the provincial opencast and the inexplicit material tracts, and between the central modify opencast of the claustrum and the passing lenticulostriate arteries is described. Conclusions The compounding of the material dissection framework and DT imaging-based tractography supports the proximity of the claustrocortical grouping as an combinatory meshwork in humans and offers the possibleness to assistance in discernment the dispersion of gliomas in the insula and another areas of the brain.

PMID: 18377257 [PubMed - in process]

(Source: Journal of Neurosurgery)

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