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Serial transverse sections of the brain stem

Telencephalon.

Image #31-6

KEYWORDS: Brain, Telencephalon.

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Serial transverse sections of the brain stem

Telencephalon.

This section, 7 mm. above the previous level, illustrates the anterior limb of the internal capsule as it passes forward between the head of the caudate nucleus and the lentiform nucleus.

1 .	Occipital lobe
2 .	Cingulate gyrus
3 .	Superior occipitofrontal fasciculus
4 .	Internal capsule (posterior limb)
5 .	Anterior horn lateral ventricle
6 .	Septum pellucidum (a few fibers of column of fornix are included)
7 .	Insula
8 .	Claustrum
9 .	External capsule
10 .	Head of caudate nucleus
11 .	Posterior horn lateral ventricle
12 .	Corona radiata
13 .	Caudate nucleus (tail)
14 .	Stria terminalis
15 .	Globus pallidus and external medullary lamina of lentiform nucleus
16 .	Putamen
17 .	Subcallosal gyrus (peduncles corpus callosum)
18 .	Internal capsule (anterior limb)
19 .	Longitudinal fissure (cerebral)