Ascending cervical artery

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The ascending cervical artery (Latin for 'ascending cervical artery') is an artery of the neck. It arises on both sides from the thyrocervical trunk and runs under the deep sheet of the cervical fascia on the anterior scalene muscle along the transverse processes of the cervical spine towards the base of the skull . The initial section is adjacent to the phrenic nerve .

The cervical artery ascending supplies the deep neck muscles ( longus colli muscle , musculus longus capitis , scalene muscles ) and the scapulae levator . It also sends segmental rami spinales, which pull into the spinal canal and take part in supplying the neck part of the spinal cord .

literature

  • Walther Graumann, Dieter Sasse: Compact textbook anatomy . Volume 4, Schattauer Verlag, 2005, ISBN 9783794520640 , p. 559.