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. 2015 Nov;227(5):702-3.
doi: 10.1111/joa.12381. Epub 2015 Sep 18.

Lymphatic vessels of the dura mater: a new discovery?

Fabio Bucchieri  1   2 , Felicia Farina  1 , Giovanni Zummo  1 , Francesco Cappello  1   2
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Lymphatic vessels of the dura mater: a new discovery?

Fabio Bucchieri et al. J Anat. 2015 Nov.
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Keywords: Mascagni; blood-brain barrier; brain; central nervous system; dura mater; lymphatics; neuroanatomy; neuroimmunology; transudate.

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This picture shows the reproduction of the first page of the chapter of the book ‘Vasorum lymphaticorum corporis humani historia et ichnographia’ in which Paolo Mascagni first described the presence of lymphatics in the cerebral dura mater. The arrow shows the incipit of the sentence in which Mascagni describes the course of these lymphatic vessels.
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