Shao B P, Ding Y P, Wang J L
Key Laboratory of Arid and Grassland Ecology, Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University, China.
Anat Histol Embryol. 2011 Oct;40(5):321-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0264.2011.01075.x. Epub 2011 Mar 29.
The heads of 12 White yaks (four castrated, four male and four female, 3-8 years old) were dissected to study the shape, location and branches of the cranial cervical ganglion macroscopically. The ganglion was a greyish arciform structure, with a mean length of 17.3 mm, a width of 8.0 mm and a thickness of 3.9 mm, located on the rostrolateral surface of m. longus capitis. Approximately 5% of the ganglion was covered laterally by the tympanic bulla and the rest by the m. stylohyoideus. The branches of the cranial cervical ganglion included the internal and external carotid nerves, the sympathetic trunk and communicating branches to the glossopharyngeal nerve, the pharyngeal branch of the vagus nerve and the hypoglossal nerve. In one specimen, the left cranial cervical ganglion was fusiform and only covered by the m. stylohyoideus. Gender differences of the cranial cervical ganglion in the White yak were not observed.
解剖12头白牦牛（4头去势、4头雄性和4头雌性，3至8岁）的头部，以宏观研究颈前神经节的形态、位置和分支。该神经节为灰ish弧形结构，平均长度为17.3毫米，宽度为8.0毫米，厚度为3.9毫米，位于头长肌的 rostrolateral 表面。约5%的神经节侧面被鼓泡覆盖，其余部分被茎突舌骨肌覆盖。颈前神经节的分支包括颈内和颈外神经、交感干以及与舌咽神经、迷走神经咽支和舌下神经的交通支。在一个标本中，左侧颈前神经节呈梭形，仅被茎突舌骨肌覆盖。未观察到白牦牛颈前神经节的性别差异。
