Jugular lymph trunks
Lymphatic trunks · Paired
Each jugular trunk carries the whole of one side of the head and neck from the deep cervical chain; the right joins the right lymphatic duct and the left joins the terminal thoracic duct.
Traced from the start
Detail
- Source
- Efferents of the deep cervical nodes
- Right
- Right lymphatic duct or directly into the vein
- Left
- Terminal part of the thoracic duct
When it goes wrong
Level IV neck dissection on the left
Risk of thoracic duct injury and a chylous neck fistula
Practise this structure
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