PECULIARITIES OF VERTEBRAE VASCULARISATION: ANATOMIC BASIS FOR RADIOLOGISTS (literature review)

Abstract

Aim of research: To analyze and systematize the data on clinical and radiological anatomy of spinal vascular structures. Materials and methods: articles about peculiar features of vertebrae vascularization on English PubMed site and some Russian-language medical publications from 1973 to 2011. Results. The most important features of vertebrae blood supply have been singled out from clinical point of view. Conclusion. Only a good knowledge of vertebrae vascularisation features makes it possible to give an adequate interpretation to the radiological diagnostics of backbone arterial inflow and venous outflow and timely diagnose their disfunction.