Thyrocervical trunk

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Cervical arteries

The thyrocervical trunk or truncus thyreocervicalis is a common main trunk for three arteries of the neck and the inferior thyroid artery supplying the parts of the thyroid gland . It arises from the subclavian artery , usually between the branches of the vertebral artery and the costocervical trunk . In addition to the thyroid gland, it supplies the lateral structures at the base of the neck.

The thyrocervical trunk branches into:

  1. Inferior thyroid artery
  2. Arteria transversa cervicis (with ramus superficialis and ramus profundus )
  3. Suprascapular artery
  4. Ascending cervical artery

In some people, the internal thoracic artery also emerges from the thyrocervical trunk.

Individual evidence

  1. FCAT - Federative Committee on Anatomical Terminology: Terminologia Anatomica. Thieme, Stuttgart et al. 1998, ISBN 3-13-114361-4 .
  2. ^ Wilhelm His : The anatomical nomenclature. = Nomina Anatomica. (Directory of the names adopted by the anatomical society at its ninth meeting in Basel) (= Archive for Anatomy and Physiology. Anatomical Department, Archive for Anatomy. 1895, Supplement, ZDB -ID 505388-2 ). Veit & Comp., Leipzig 1895.
  3. Friedrich Kopsch: The Nomina anatomica of the year 1895 (BNA) arranged according to the series of letters and compared to the Nomina anatomica of the year 1935 (INA). 3rd completely revised edition, compared and improved with the 2nd edition of the INA. Georg Thieme, Leipzig 1941.
  4. ^ Hermann Stieve: Nomina Anatomica. Compiled by the Nomenclature Commission elected in 1923, taking into account the proposals of the members of the Anatomical Society of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, as well as the American Association of Anatomists, revised and finalized by resolution of the Anatomical Society at the Jena conference in 1935 accepted. Provided with special explanations. 4th revised edition. Gustav Fischer, Jena 1949.

literature

  • Theodor H. Schiebler (Ed.): Anatomie. Histology, history of development, macroscopic and microscopic anatomy, topography. Taking into account the item catalog. 9th, completely revised edition. Springer, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-540-21966-8 .