What is it about?
This article is about the Byzantine and subarachnoid cisterns that store an essential material for life: water. It gives wonderful examples from an ancient and fascinating city, and reminds functional similarities and differences between cisterns built by man and those that naturally exist in the human body.
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Why is it important?
Whether artificial or natural, the maintenance of the cisterns in working and healthy states is very important for life; because “if there is water there is life”
Perspectives
It was a great pleasure for me to write this article, I had the chance to introduce both the archaeological values of the city that I live in, and the subarachnoid systems that have an important place in my profession.
Professor Tayfun Hakan
University of Health Sciences, İstanbul
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This page is a summary of: Cisterns as vital structures: byzantine cisterns and subarachnoid cisterns, Turkish Neurosurgery, January 2020, Turkish Neurological Society,
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.jtn.29786-20.3.
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