Superior laryngeal vein

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Vein: Superior laryngeal vein
Inferior thyroid veins visible at center.
Latin	vena laryngea superior
Drains from	larynx
Drains to	superior thyroid vein
Artery	superior laryngeal artery
Dorlands / Elsevier	v_05/12850813

The superior laryngeal vein is a vein which drains the larynx into the superior thyroid vein.

v • d • e Veins (emissary, jugular and others) and sinuses of head and neck (drainage patterns can vary)
to external jugular	retromandibular: maxillary • superficial temporal (anterior auricular) posterior auricular transverse cervical - suprascapular - anterior jugular (jugular venous arch)
to internal jugular	Diploic/brain cerebral: superior • middle • inferior • great • internal (basal, superior thalamostriate) cerebellar: superior • inferior To COS: superior sagittal • straight (inferior sagittal) • occipital To CS: sphenoparietal • intercavernous superior ophthalmic (ethmoidal, central retinal, nasofrontal) • inferior ophthalmic • vorticose veins To IJV: sigmoid: transverse (petrosquamous) • superior petrosal inferior petrosal (basilar plexus, internal auditory veins) - condylar Other common facial • facial (frontal, supraorbital, angular, superior labial, inferior labial, deep facial) • pterygoid plexus lingual (dorsal lingual, deep lingual, sublingual) • pharyngeal • thyroid (superior/superior laryngeal, middle)
to vertebral vein	occipital (occipital)  • suboccipital venous plexus deep cervical
to brachiocephalic	inferior thyroid (inferior laryngeal) - thymic

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