Tributaries of Internal Jugular Vein IJV

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What are the tributaries of Internal Jugular Vein? DNB ENT April 2016

Internal jugular vein

Tributaries of Internal Jugular Vein
Tributaries of Internal Jugular Vein

Internal jugular vein provides the venous return from the skull, brain, upper face and neck. It originates (where it has a superior bulb) as the continuation of the sigmoid sinus in the jugular foramen of the skull and sometimes receives the inferior petrosal sinus as shown in above figure.

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