Parieto-occipital sulcus
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- Synonyms
- parieto-occipital fissure, parieto-occipital sulcus
The parieto-occipital sulcus is a Sulcus that separates the Parietal lobe and the Occipital lobe.
Anatomy
Together with the calcarine sulcus, the parieto-occipital sulcus delimits the Cuneus of the medial occipital lobe.
Figure
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Schematic illustration of the parieto-occipital sulcus (marked in red) adapted from Gray's Anatomy.
Imaging
The parieto-occipital sulcus is best visualized on a midsagittal section.
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Depiction of the sulcus parietooccipitalis (red line) on a sagittal T1-weighted sequence from a 7 Tesla MRI of the skull.