According to Rustenhoven, the dural sinuses offer both a location to study diseases like multiple sclerosis or even Alzheimer’s disease and a potential target for treatments.
Brain pale, some dural vessels well marked, no clots or hemorrhages.
The dural vessels of the brain were dilated; there was a clot on the dura over the fourth ventricle.
The cerebral dural vessels were congested and the spinal dural vessels were well defined.
Post-mortem showed dural vessels of cord and brain full of blood.
No harm is done in exposing these structures, and it precludes missing an extra-dural abscess.