The superior cerebellar artery (SCA) arises near the termination of the basilar artery. It passes lateralward, immediately below the oculomotor nerve, which separates it from the posterior cerebral artery, winds around the cerebral peduncle, close to the trochlear nerve, and, arriving at the upper surface of the cerebellum, divides into branches which ramify in the pia mater and anastomose with those of the inferior cerebellar arteries. Several branches are given to the pineal body, the anterior medullary velum, and the tela chorioidea of the third ventricle. [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_cerebellar_artery ]
Term information
- FMA:50573
- NCIT:C33669
- Wikipedia:Superior_cerebellar_artery
- SCTID:244214000
- EHDAA2:0000681
- MA:0001934
- EMAPA:19309
uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas
Term relations
- cerebellar artery and supplies some metencephalon and supplies some pineal body and supplies some cerebellum and connecting branch of some basilar artery