Superior thyroid vein

Superior thyroid vein
The veins of the thyroid gland
Veins
Details
Drains to	Internal jugular vein
Artery	Superior thyroid artery
Identifiers
Latin	vena thyreoidea superior
TA98	A12.3.05.014
TA2	4812
FMA	14323
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

The superior thyroid vein is the vena comitans of the superior thyroid artery.^[1] It is formed by the union of deep and superficial tributaries^[1] that correspond to the arterial branches of the superior thyroid artery.^[2] Its tributaries are the superior laryngeal vein, and the cricothyroid veins^{[clarification needed]}. The vein empties into either the internal jugular vein, or the facial vein.^[1]

Additional images

The venae cavae and azygos veins with their tributaries.
The thymus of a full-time fetus.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Standring, Susan (2020). Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice (42th ed.). New York. p. 593. ISBN 978-0-7020-7707-4. OCLC 1201341621.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Gray, Henry (1918). Gray's Anatomy (20th ed.). p. 649.

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