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Cytogenesis and Developmental Anatomy of the Pia-Arachnoid and Pacchionian Granules

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The membranous coverings, essentially composed of connective tissue, that surround the whole neuraxis are called meninges. The word dates back to Erasistratus,1 whereas Galen distinguished “the pacheia and the lepte,” and after translation into Arabic and at last Latin, the terms dura mater and pia mater came to the modern era.2

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Rigobello, L. (1993). Cytogenesis and Developmental Anatomy of the Pia-Arachnoid and Pacchionian Granules. In: Raimondi, A.J., Choux, M., Di Rocco, C. (eds) Intracranial Cyst Lesions. Principles of Pediatric Neurosurgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7281-7_2

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