Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus II: Cardiovascular System: Veins: Head, Neck, and Thorax

Internal Jugular Vein

Ronald A. Bergman, PhD
Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Ryosuke Miyauchi, MD
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The jugular bulb may lie exposed within the middle ear cavity.

The vein may be rudimentary, its blood return taken over by the external jugular.

Unusual tributaries of the internal jugular include the supreme thoracic, bronchial, superior laryngeal, palatine, superficial cervical, vertebral, suprascapular, and transverse cervical veins.

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References

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Bergman, R.A., Thompson, S.A., Afifi, A.K. and F.A. Saadeh. (1988) Compendium of Human Anatomic Variation: Catalog, Atlas and World Literature. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Baltimore and Munich.

Henle, J. (1868) Handbuch der Systematischen Anatomie des Menschen, Von Freidrich Vieweg und Sohn, Braunschweig.

Huber, G.C., Ed. (1930) Piersol's Human Anatomy, 9th ed., L.B. Lippincott co., Philadelphia.

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