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Anatomy Atlases: Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus II: Cardiovascular System: Thyrocervical Trunk

Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus II: Cardiovascular System

Thyrocervical Trunk

Ronald A. Bergman, PhD
Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Ryosuke Miyauchi, MD
Peer Review Status: Internally Peer Reviewed

Images of the thyrocervical trunk
  1. Note the trunk on the right and left sides.
  2. Note absence of thyrocervical trunk. The inferior thyroid arises from the vertebral and the transverse cervical and suprascapular arise from the subclavian and cross the anterior scalene muscle.

from Gruber, 1878.

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