Abstract
The cerebral ventricles are structures known since antiquity. At the beginning of its description, there was a belief that human thoughts and intellect were generated inside the ventricular cavity, and this idea persisted even after the Renaissance. In this period after the Dark Ages, the anatomical description of the ventricles evolved a lot, but it took a long time to conclude the true liquid nature of the ventricular content. The ventricles are divided into lateral, third, and fourth ventricles, and each of these regions presents communications between themselves and very precise limits. For endoscopic procedures, a thorough knowledge of the anatomy of the lateral and third ventricles is extremely important. The cerebrospinal fluid circulates inside the ventricles according to a complex mechanism, and there are still controversies nowadays, especially regarding its resorption.
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Dezena, R.A. (2020). Anatomy and Physiology of the Ventricular System. In: Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28657-6_2
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