Basivertebral veins

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Vein: Basivertebral veins

Transverse section of a thoracic vertebra, showing the vertebral venous plexuses (basivertebral veins labeled as Vena Basi-verteb at bottom center)

Median sagittal section of two thoracic vertebrae, showing the vertebral venous plexuses (basivertebral veins labeled as Vena Basi-Vert at bottom right)
Latin	Venae basivertebrales
Gray's	p.668

The basivertebral veins are veins within the vertebral column. They are contained in large, tortuous channels in the substance of the bones, similar in every respect to those found in the diploë of the cranial bones.

They emerge from the foramina on the posterior surfaces of the vertebral bodies.

They communicate through small openings on the front and sides of the vertebral bodies with the anterior external vertebral plexuses, and converge behind to the principal canal, which is sometimes double toward its posterior part, and open by valved orifices into the transverse branches which unite the anterior internal vertebral plexuses.

The basivertebral veins become greatly enlarged in advanced age.

References

This article incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy.

External links

abdo_wall77 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences - "Venous Drainage of the Vertebral Column"

Veins of the thorax and vertebral column (TA A12.3.01–04, 07, GA 7.664)

Thorax

Coronary

Coronary sinus	Great cardiac (Left marginal) Posterior of the left ventricle Oblique of the left atrium (Ligament of the left vena cava) Middle cardiac

Small cardiac vein	Anterior cardiac (Right marginal)

Smallest cardiac veins	Right atrial veins Right ventricular veins

Pulmonary

right inferior pulmonary vein
right superior pulmonary vein
left inferior pulmonary vein
left superior pulmonary vein

SVC

Brachiocephalic	internal thoracic anterior intercostal superior epigastric left superior intercostal supreme vertebral subclavian axillary: lateral thoracic thoracoepigastric dorsal scapular external jugular pericardiacophrenic internal jugular

Azygos	right superior intercostal bronchial intercostal/posterior intercostal 5-11 accessory hemiazygos/hemiazygos superior phrenic

Vertebral column

vertebral venous plexuses
- external
- internal
spinal
- posterior
- anterior
basivertebral
intervertebral

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