Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 November 2024
The foramina of Luschka and Magendie are three pathways through which CSF flows out of the fourth ventricle. The foramina of Luschka, also called the lateral apertures of Luschka, and named after the nineteenth-century German anatomist Hubert von Luschka, are left and right lateral pathways that allow CSF to flow out of the fourth ventricle into the subarachnoid space via the cerebellopontine cisterns. These foramina lie just posterior to the origin of the glossopharyngeal nerve (CN IX).
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