ANATOMICAL STUDY OF THE BRANCHES EMERGING ALONG THE INTRACAVERNOUS COURSE OF THE INTERNAL CAROTID-ARTERY IN HUMANS

The introduction in the sixties of magnification tools in surgery has created the need for a precise anatomical knowledge of morphological s tructures that was previously unnecessary from a clinical perspective. In the present paper, we have centred our attention on the intracaver nous portion of the internal carotid artery (arteria carotis interna) in humans for applicative purposes. With the aid of a surgical microsc ope and the corresponding microdissecting material we have analysed th e branches emerging from this arterial segment. Our results are compar ed with previous data appearing in the literature. the latter sometime s confusing because of the different terminologies used to refer to th ese vessels. The elements under study varied greatly, but some basic v ariational parameters were deduced.