| Occipitofrontal fasciculus | |
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 Tractography showing occipitofrontal fasciculus | |
| Details | |
| Identifiers | |
| Latin | fasciculus occipitofrontalis inferior |
| NeuroNames | 1442 |
| TA98 | A14.1.09.561 A14.1.09.562 |
| TA2 | 5601, 5602 |
| Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy[edit on Wikidata] | |
The occipitofrontal fasciculus, also known as the fronto-occipital fasciculus, passes backward from the frontal lobe, along the lateral border of the caudate nucleus, and on the medial aspect of the corona radiata; its fibers radiate in a fan-like manner and pass into the occipital and temporal lobes lateral to the posterior and inferior cornua.
Some sources distinguish between an inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFOF) and a superior fronto-occipital fasciculus (SFOF), however the latter is no longer believed to exist in the human brain.
References
This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 844 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)
- Meola, Antonio; Comert, Ayhan; Yeh, Fang-Cheng; Stefaneanu, Lucia; Fernandez-Miranda, Juan C. (December 2015). "The controversial existence of the human superior fronto-occipital fasciculus: Connectome-based tractographic study with microdissection validation". Human Brain Mapping. 36 (12): 4964–4971. doi:10.1002/hbm.22990. ISSN 1065-9471. PMC 4715628. PMID 26435158.
- Liu X, Kinoshita M, Shinohara H, Hori O, Ozaki N, Nakada M (2020). "Does the superior fronto-occipital fascicle exist in the human brain? Fiber dissection and brain functional mapping in 90 patients with gliomas". NeuroImage Clin. 25: 102192. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102192. PMC 6997620. PMID 32014826.
External links
- Türe U, Yaşargil MG, Pait TG (June 1997). "Is there a superior occipitofrontal fasciculus? A microsurgical anatomic study". Neurosurgery. 40 (6): 1226–32. doi:10.1097/00006123-199706000-00022. PMID 9179896.
- Kier EL, Staib LH, Davis LM, Bronen RA (May 2004). "MR imaging of the temporal stem: anatomic dissection tractography of the uncinate fasciculus, inferior occipitofrontal fasciculus, and Meyer's loop of the optic radiation". AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 25 (5): 677–91. PMC 7974480. PMID 15140705.
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| Association fibers | |
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