Tags: Anatomical Structure, Artery.

The superior cerebellar artery (SCA) arises near the termination of the basilar artery.It passes lateralward immediately below the oculomotor nerve which separates it from the posterior cerebral artery winds around the cerebral peduncle close to the trochlear nerve and arriving at the upper surface of the cerebellum divides into branches which ramify in the pia mater and anastomose with those of the anterior and posterior inferior cerebellar arteries.

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