Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus III: Nervous System: Plexuses
Ronald A. Bergman, PhD
Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Ryosuke Miyauchi, MD
Peer Review Status: Internally Peer Reviewed
The nerve may arise solely from the third or from the third and fourth cervical nerves.
In its course in the neck it sometimes passes through an annulus in the external jugular.
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