They are easy to differentiate from soft tissue emissary veins which run on the outside of the skull because these do not produce grooves in the skull. What is the difference between diploic and emissary veins?
Diploic ones stay in the skull. When a diploic vein exits the skull it becomes an emissary vein. Above is a typical x-ray of diploic veins. Below is the same x-ray with arrows pointing to diploic veins. Because of some eye trick effects, they are easier to see on a black background of old-time x-rays. Not as striking as on skull lateral x-ray, however it is the same patient. On angio, the key is to hold that pedal down into late venous phase. As you can see, these veins are most obvious in the late venous phase, after sinuses have opacified.
Images below show native views black and white backgrounds, top. Lower left image shows diploic veins on a DSA. Lower right unsubtracted venous phase image shows contrast in diploic veins filling the curvilinear lucent spaces seen in the top row. Lateral views are best. However, frontal views show these also. Skull x-ray shows lucent channels white arrows while lower right late venous phase angio shows diploic veins arrows.
Stereo Pair of diploic veins, cross-eye view. Again, these are diploic veins. You know they are thinning the skull because of the lucencies they produce the actual sharp line is due to a bone-tissue interface.
The below digital subtraction angiogram middle image , in late venous phase, nicely shows the corresponding venous channels filling in the diploic venous spaces seen on the skull radiograph above and left image. Venous phase unsubtracted view right image shows contrast in the vein, for those who still remain in doubt. The patient is post clipping of cerebral aneurysm no relationship to diploic veins…. It is important to extent the acquisition into late venous phase, since these emissary veins are often opacified quite late.
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Top Definitions Quiz Examples diploic vein. Venous lacunae are the result of focal venous dilatations located within the diploid space of the skull, most commonly encountered adjacent to the superior sagittal sinus.
They receive blood from the cerebral veins as well as meningeal veins and connect to diploic and emissary veins 1. They can be invaginated by arachnoid granulations and therefore act as a means of CSF absorption 1. Venous lacunes are seen as a lyric area adjacent to the sagittal suture, mainly in the parietal bone. On CT, venous lacunes appear as sharply demarcated regions of lucency with blood density centrally.
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