Effusion of lymph beneath the arachnoid membrane covering the pons, medulla oblongata and spinal cord

The base of the brain with part of the medulla oblongata, the blood vessels injected with wax, and the cerebellum (Table XII, figs 1-2), after Cowper in Ridley (1695); the foetal heart, the larynx and the viscera (Table XIII), after an etching by G. Vandergucht in Cheselden (1740) Etching by I. Basire, 1743.

CT scan; brain cancer (glioma), brain stem

MRI scan; brain cancer (glioma), brain stem

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