Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy
Dissection of head and neck from a posterior approach
Blood vessels and nerves to left carotid body
Image #82-1
KEYWORDS: Peripheral nervous system, Vasculature.
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Dissection of head and neck from a posterior approach
Blood vessels and nerves to left carotid body
The internal carotid artery and vagus nerve have been retracted posterolaterally and the superior cervical ganglion retracted posteromedially.
- Occipital artery
- Upper pointer: Sternocleidomastoid muscle Lower pointer: Accessory nerve (XI)
- Nodose ganglion of vagus nerve
- Vagus nerve (X) (retracted posterolaterally)
- Internal carotid artery (retracted posterolaterally)
- Upper pointer: Carotid body Lower pointer: Carotid body (accessory)
- Nerve filaments entering wall of Internal carotid artery at site of carotid sinus
- Artery which supplies carotid body
- Internal jugular vein
- Middle pharyngeal constrictor muscle
- Internal carotid nerve
- Superior laryngeal nerve
- Gray rami communicantes (to cervical nerve I-II)
- Superior cervical ganglion
- Inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscle
- Nerves to carotid body (branches of glossopharyngeal nerve (IX))
- Pharyngeal plexus vagus nerve
- Superior horn thyroid cartilage
- Superior cardiac branch vagus nerve
- Sympathetic trunk