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Anterior auricular branches of superficial temporal artery
The anterior auricular branches of the superficial temporal artery
are distributed to the anterior portion of the auricula, the lobule, and part of the external meatus,
anastomosing with the posterior auricular.
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|
List of arteries of head and neck |
| Anterior: CC/EC |
superior
thyroid (superior laryngeal) - lingual (sublingual)
facial: cervical branches (ascending palatine, tonsillar,
submental, glandular) -
facial branches (inferior labial, superior labial, lateral nasal,
angular)
|
| Posterior and ascending: CC/EC |
occipital - posterior auricular (stylomastoid) - ascending pharyngeal
(meningeal branches) |
| Terminal, superficial temporal: CC/EC |
transverse
facial - middle temporal (zygomaticoörbital) - anterior auricular - frontal - parietal
|
| Terminal, maxillary: CC/EC |
1st part: anterior tympanic - deep auricular -
middle meningeal (superior
tympanic) - accessory meningeal - inferior alveolar (mylohyoid)
2nd part: deep temporal - pterygoid branches - masseteric -
buccal
3rd part: posterior superior alveolar - infraorbital (anterior superior
alveolar) - descending palatine - artery of the pterygoid canal - sphenopalatine |
| portions #1 and 2: CC/IC |
cervical portion (carotid sinus) -
petrous portion (Vidian, caroticotympanic) |
| cavernous portion/ophthalmic:
CC/IC |
orbital group: lacrimal (lateral palpebral) - supraorbital - posterior ethmoidal -
anterior ethmoidal - medial
palpebral - supratrochlear - dorsal
nasal
ocular group: central retinal - ciliary (short posterior, long posterior, anterior) -
superior hypophysial - inferior hypophysial
|
| cerebral portion: CC/IC |
ACA -
anterior communicating - MCA (anterolateral central) -
posterior communicating - anterior choroidal - circle of Willis |
| vertebral artery: SC |
meningeal branches - posterior
spinal - anterior spinal - PICA - basilar (pontine, labyrinthine, AICA, SCA, PCA) |
| thyrocervical trunk: SC |
inferior
thyroid (inferior laryngeal, tracheal, esophageal, ascending
cervical) - suprascapular - transverse cervical - dorsal scapular |
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