Thymic veins

Thymic veins are veins which drain the thymus. They are tributaries of the left brachiocephalic vein.

Thymic veins
Details
Drains to	left brachiocephalic vein
Artery	thymic arteries
Identifiers
Latin	venae thymicae
TA98	A12.3.04.005
TA2	4773
FMA	70828
*Anatomical terminology*

External links

Keynes, G (1967). "The Thymic Vein". British Medical Journal. 1 (5540): 634. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.5540.634-b. PMC 1841430.
"Thymic vein". Medcyclopaedia. GE.
http://www.instantanatomy.net/thorax/vessels/vinsuperiormediastinum.html
https://radiopaedia.org/cases/thymic-vein-on-ct

Veins of the head and neck

External jugular

Retromandibular	maxillary pterygoid plexus superficial temporal anterior auricular
Direct	posterior auricular transverse cervical suprascapular anterior jugular jugular venous arch

Internal jugular

Superficial:	superior superficial middle inferior inferior anastomotic (Labbé) superior anastomotic (Trolard)
Deep:	great internal basal deep middle superior thalamostriate

To COS	superior sagittal straight inferior sagittal occipital
To CS	sphenoparietal intercavernous superior ophthalmic ethmoidal central retinal nasofrontal vorticose veins inferior ophthalmic
To IJV	sigmoid: transverse petrosquamous superior petrosal inferior petrosal basilar plexus internal auditory veins condylar

Facial/common facial

Direct

Brachiocephalic

Vertebral	occipital occipital emissary suboccipital venous plexus deep cervical
Direct	inferior thyroid inferior laryngeal thymic

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