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CORTICOSPINAL TRACT in the BASILAR PONS

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key - 2 - 1 - caudal - SLIDE 16 - rostral - 1 - 2 - key

The pathways we are following continue their descending course. Try to identify a few landmarks as you look at each slide. For example, what are those odd, round things on the dorsal surface of the brainstem? Their presence tells us that the dorsal part of the slide passes through what division of the brainstem? There seems to be a nerve exiting from the brain just below them; which one is it? Click on "key" to look at the next (rostral or caudal) slide. Click on the red ball to return to the text, by way of the call-up view)