Ophthalmic Veins

Ophthalmic veins are veins which drain the eye.

More specifically, they can refer to:

  • Superior ophthalmic vein
  • Inferior ophthalmic vein
Veins (emissary, jugular and others) of head and neck (drainage patterns can vary) (TA A12.3.04–06, GA 7.644)
External jugular
Retromandibular maxillary (pterygoid plexus) · superficial temporal (anterior auricular)
Direct

posterior auricular

transverse cervical · suprascapular · anterior jugular (jugular venous arch)
Internal jugular
Diploic/brain
Cerebral

Superficial cerebral veins: superior · superficial middle · inferior · inferior anastomotic (Labbé) · superior anastomotic (Trolard)

Deep cerebral veins: great · internal (basal, deep middle, superior thalamostriate)
Cerebellar superior · inferior
Sinuses
To COS superior sagittal · straight (inferior sagittal) · occipital
To CS sphenoparietal · intercavernous
superior ophthalmic (ethmoidal, central retinal, nasofrontal, vorticose veins) · inferior ophthalmic
To IJV sigmoid: transverse (petrosquamous) · superior petrosal
inferior petrosal (basilar plexus, internal auditory veins) · condylar
Facial/common facial frontal · supraorbital · angular · superior labial · inferior labial · deep facial
Direct lingual (dorsal lingual, deep lingual, sublingual) · pharyngeal · superior thyroid (superior laryngeal) · middle thyroid
Brachiocephalic
Vertebral

occipital (occipital emissary) · suboccipital venous plexus

deep cervical
Direct inferior thyroid (inferior laryngeal) · thymic

M: VAS

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noco/syva/cong/lyvd/tumr, sysi/epon, injr

proc, drug (C2s+n/3/4/5/7/8/9)


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