Common facial vein

Common facial vein
Veins of the head and neck.
Details
Source	facial vein
Drains to	jugular vein
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

The facial vein usually unites with the anterior branch of the retromandibular vein to form the common facial vein, which crosses the external carotid artery and enters the internal jugular vein at a variable point below the hyoid bone.

From near its termination a communicating branch often runs down the anterior border of the sternocleidomastoideus to join the lower part of the anterior jugular vein.

The common facial vein is not present in all individuals.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 645 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

lesson4 at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (parotid2)

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

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

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

Direct

Vertebral	occipital occipital emissary suboccipital venous plexus deep cervical
Direct	inferior thyroid inferior laryngeal thymic

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