Anomalies of intracranial venous sinuses in dogs and their clinical significance.

Intracranial dural sinuses (ICDS) are in mammals as important part of blood circulation as brain arteries. In spite of the essential role they execute in brain blood drainage and provide in cerebral circulation, generally they attract much lesser attention than brain arteries. With growing interest to raise dogs as pets, guardians and working animals, will increase the incidence of injuries and different pathological processes of central nervous system and meninges in dogs. The essential presumption of diagnostics and therapy of above mentioned diseases is detailed knowledge of structure and function of brain, meninges and their blood supply. The aim of the proposed scientific project is a study of macro- and microscopic composition of ICDS and their potential anomalies in fresh cadavers of dogs (maximum 24 hours post mortem), who expired due to extracranial pathological processes.