basilar artery

Origin

• continuation of fused intracranial vertebral arteries

Course

• runs along clivus in the pontine cistern of the subarachnoid space from the lower border to the upper border of the pons

Branches

• anterior inferior cerebellar artery
• internal auditory artery
• pontine arteries
• mesencephalic arteries
• superior cerebellar artery
• posterior cerebral artery
• bifurcates into the 2 posterior cerebral arteries

More general terms

• artery

Additional terms

• basilar artery thrombosis/occlusion