Ascending Cervical Artery

When this artery is absent it is replaced by branches from the superficial cervical, suprascapular, or vertebral artery. According to Röhlich the ascending cervical artery arose from the inferior thyroid artery as follows: Right side, 76 cases (79.1%); Left side, 68 cases (74.7%); total 144 cases (79.1%); in Men, 95 cases (77.2%); in Women, 53 cases (87.5%).

The ascending cervical arose with the transverse cervical artery from a common stem. Right side, 3 cases (3.1%); left side, 5 cases (5.7%); total, 8 cases (4.3%); in Men, 6 cases (4.8%); in Women, 2 cases (3.1%).

The ascending cervical arose with the superficial cervical artery from a common stem. Right side, 21 cases (21.8%); Left side, 19 cases (20.8%); total 40 cases (21.3%); in Men, 19 cases (15.4%); in Women, 11 cases (17.1%).

The ascending cervical arose with the suprascapular artery from a common trunk (with other vessels); one case, in a man (0.5%).

The ascending cervical artery was absent in only one case in Röhlich's series.

Origin of Ascending Cervical Artery (from Yazuta) based on a study of 100 bodies (200 sides) follows:

Origin of Ascending Cervical Artery.

Right No. / %

Left No. / %

Total No. / %

Dubrevil- Chambardel

Inferior Thyroid artery

64 / 64

67 / 67

131 / 65.5

72%

Thyrocervical trunk

25 / 25

26 / 26

51 / 25.5

-

Transverse Cervical artery

4 / 4

4 / 4

8 / 4.0

11%

Suprascapular artery

3 / 3

2 / 2

5 / 2.5

-

Subclavian artery

3 / 3

1 / 1

4 / 2.0

8%

Absence of Ascend. Cervical

1 / 1

-

1 / 0.5

4%

The ascending cervical artery is sometimes larger than usual and may replace the occipital artery. A branch from the ascending cervical artery may compensate for the small size of a deep cervical artery.

Riferimenti dell’opera originale

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