Baxla Monica, Kumari Chiman, Kaler Saroj
Department of Anatomy, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Department of Anatomy, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Anat Cell Biol. 2018 Dec;51(4):302-304. doi: 10.5115/acb.2018.51.4.302. Epub 2018 Dec 29.
Prior knowledge of arterial supply to the head and neck is of substantial importance for well-planned surgeries involving the concerned region. We are reporting an unusual and rare variation in the branching pattern of external carotid artery in a 60-year-old female cadaver. A common trunk known as thyrolinguofacial trunk, originating from the anterior surface of the external carotid artery (right and left) giving of superior thyroid artery and a linguofacial trunk during a routine neck dissection. The linguofacial trunk then divided into a lingual and a facial artery. Vascular abnormalities are usually detected either on the dissection table or by the radiologists during imaging or accidently during surgeries leading to serious consequences.
了解头颈部的动脉供应情况对于涉及该区域的精心规划的手术至关重要。我们报告了一名60岁女性尸体中外颈动脉分支模式的一种不寻常且罕见的变异情况。在一次常规颈部解剖过程中，发现一条名为甲状腺舌面干的总干，它起源于双侧颈外动脉的前表面，发出甲状腺上动脉和一条舌面干。舌面干随后又分为舌动脉和面动脉。血管异常通常是在解剖台上、影像学检查时由放射科医生发现的，或者在手术过程中意外发现，这可能会导致严重后果。
