What is branching?
This is the blood supply to the parathyroids
What is the inferior thyroid artery?
This is the blood supply to the tonsil
What are the tonsillar branch of facial artery, dorsal lingual branch of lingual artery, descending palatine artery, ascending pharyngeal artery?
Name three vessels in Keisselbach's plexus
What are greater palatine, anterior ethmoid, superior labial, and sphenopalatine arteries?
This vein is near the facial nerve in the parotid gland
What is the retromandibular vein?
Name the branches of the external carotid artery
What are superior thyroid, ascending pharyngeal, lingual, facial, occipital, posterior auricular, maxillary, superficial temporal arteries?
These two veins form the common facial vein
What are the retromandibular and facial vein?
This is the distance from midline of the supratrochlear artery
What is ~2cm (1.7-2.2cm)?
Non recurrent RLN is more common on this side (and the reason)
What is the left side? (4th arch - loops around the aortic arch on this side)
These are the branches of the thyrocervical trunk
What are transverse cervical artery, inferior thyroid artery, and suprascapular artery?
This vascular anomaly is commonly found with non-recurrent laryngeal nerve on the right
What is aberrant subclavian artery? (Arteria lusoria, runs behind esophagus)
With an absent foramen spinosum on imaging, you may note this vascular anomaly
What is persistent stapedial artery?
Patient comes in with acute onset vocal cord palsy, dysarthria, palatal paresis, Horner syndrome, ataxia, nystagmus, sensory deficits of ipsilateral face and contralateral body. ED calls you first. You know it is this because you remember neuroanatomy.
What is Wallenberg syndrome (PICA syndrome, lateral medullary syndrome, can also be vertebral artery)?
This is the blood supply to the pec flap
What is the pectoral branch of the thoracoacromial artery?
These are the three main arteries from the ECA that supply the scalp
What are the STA, occipital artery, and posterior auricular artery?
This vascular malformation leads to dysphagia lusoria (laterality included)
What is aberrant right subclavian artery?
What is the superior labial artery and the angular artery?
When harvesting a temporoparietal flap, you take care to note the superficial temporal artery is between these two planes
What is the temporoparietal fascia and temporal fascia?
This artery runs through the thyrohyoid membrane
What is the superior laryngeal artery?
The lacrimal artery is a branch of this artery
What is the ophthalmic artery?
This is the blood supply of the deltopectoral flap
What are the internal mammary artery perforators?
Name at least 8 branches of the internal maxillary artery
What are the deep auricular, anterior tympanic, middle meningeal, accessory meningeal, posterior deep temporal, pterygoid, anterior deep temporal, artery of pterygoid canal, pharyngeal, sphenopalatine, infraorbital, posterior superior alveolar, descending palatine, buccal, masseteric, inferior alveolar arteries?
These two venous sinuses form the internal jugular vein
What are the sigmoid sinus and inferior petrosal sinus?
This is the blood supply of the scapular free flap
What is the transverse branch of the circumflex scapular artery?
What is the labyrinthine artery/internal auditory artery (off the AICA or directly off the basilar artery)?