Guffarth A, Graumann W
Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 1975 Oct 30;211(1):17-23. doi: 10.1007/BF00467286.
The relation of the external carotid artery to the parotid gland is differently described by various authors. Publications on topographical anatomy predominantly state that the artery takes its course "through the gland". In contrast to this, however, oto-rhinolaryngological publications tend to emphasize a rather loose spatial relation of the artery to the medial surface of the gland as being typical although, in general, little attention is being paid from the operative and technical point of view to the position of the artery in relation to the gland. Our own anatomical dissections in dead bodies have shown that in a number of instances the artery and its branches are extensively surrounded by glandular tissue. With approximately equal frequency, however, the artery was found to lie in a more or less superficial groove on the medial surface of the gland.
不同作者对颈外动脉与腮腺的关系有不同描述。关于局部解剖学的出版物大多称该动脉走行“穿过腺体”。然而，与此形成对比的是，耳鼻喉科出版物往往强调该动脉与腺体内侧表面的空间关系相当松散是典型情况，不过，从手术和技术角度总体上很少关注动脉相对于腺体的位置。我们自己对尸体的解剖表明，在许多情况下，动脉及其分支被腺体组织广泛包围。然而，发现动脉以大致相同的频率位于腺体内侧表面或多或少的浅沟中。
