Veins - Head & Neck
Tributaries of the Brachiocephalic vein:
Subclavian vein
Internal jugular vein
Subclavian vein
- Internal thoracic vein, which travels with the internal thoracic artery within the thoracic cage
- External jugular vein
- Posterior auricular vein
- Retromandibular vein drains Superficial temporal vein and Maxillary vein
- Transverse cervical vein, which drains blood from the upper back
- Suprascapular vein, which drains the posterior shoulder region
- Anterior jugular vein, which is a superficial vein that drains superficial tissues of the anterior neck.
Internal jugular vein
- Descends within neck with internal carotid artery
- Exits skull via jugular foramen
- Common facial vein
- Supra-orbital vein
- Supratrochlear vein
- Angular vein
- Facial vein
- Lingual vein
- Superior and middle thyroid veins
- Internal jugular vein often receives blood from the posterior scalp via the occipital vein, although this is highly variable.
- Retromandibular vein.
- Retromandibular vein drains into both the external and the internal jugular veins.
Venous angle:
Where the internal jugular vein meets the subclavian vein.
- Drainage site for lymphatic vessels into the systemic blood supply.
- On the left side, the venous angle receives lymph via the thoracic duct, and, on the right side, from the right lymphatic duct.