Middle cervical ganglion

The middle cervical ganglion is the smallest of the three cervical ganglia, and is occasionally absent. It is placed opposite the sixth cervical vertebra, usually in front of, or close to, the inferior thyroid artery. It sends gray rami communicantes to the fifth and sixth cervical nerves, and gives off the middle cardiac nerve.

Middle cervical ganglion
Diagram of the cervical sympathetic. ("Middle cervical ganglion" labeled at center right.)
Details
Frommiddle cardiac nerve
Innervatesthyroid
Identifiers
Latinganglion cervicale medium
TA98A14.3.01.016
TA26609
FMA6468
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

It is probably formed by the coalescence of two ganglia corresponding to the fifth and sixth cervical nerves.

Branches

  1. Gray Rami Communicantes to the anterior rami of the fifth and sixth cervical nerves.
  2. Thyroid Branches which pass along the inferior thyroid artery to the thyroid gland.
  3. The middle cardiac branch, which descends in the neck and ends in the cardiac plexus in the thorax

See also


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