Condylar emissary vein

Condylar emissary vein
Details
Identifiers
Latin	vena emissaria condylaris
TA98	A12.3.05.304
TA2	4875
FMA	50793
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

The condylar emissary vein is a vein connecting the suboccipital plexus of veins with the sigmoid sinus. It is clinically significant because it is a possible mode of transportation for disease into the cranium.

References

R. Shane Tubbs; Mohammadali M. Shoja; Marios Loukas (4 May 2016). Bergman's Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation. Wiley. pp. 2892–. ISBN 978-1-118-43068-2.

Veins of the head and neck

External jugular

Retromandibular	maxillary pterygoid plexus superficial temporal anterior auricular
Direct	posterior auricular transverse cervical suprascapular anterior jugular jugular venous arch

Internal jugular

Diploic/brain

Cerebral

Superficial:	superior superficial middle inferior inferior anastomotic (Labbé) superior anastomotic (Trolard)
Deep:	great internal basal deep middle superior thalamostriate choroid septal

Cerebellar

Sinuses

To COS	superior sagittal straight inferior sagittal occipital
To CS	sphenoparietal intercavernous superior ophthalmic ethmoidal central retinal nasofrontal vorticose veins inferior ophthalmic
To IJV	sigmoid: transverse petrosquamous superior petrosal inferior petrosal basilar plexus internal auditory veins condylar