Right venous angle
Venous return · IJV + subclavian
The junction of the right internal jugular and right subclavian veins receives the right lymphatic duct, returning lymph from the right upper quadrant of the body, roughly a quarter of the total.
Traced from the start
- Head and neck
- Gut and abdominal visceraTestis and ovary
- Deep cervical nodesLeft supraclavicular (Virchow's) node
- Upper limbBreast
- Axillary nodes
- Lungs and thoracic viscera
- Tracheobronchial and mediastinal nodesParasternal (internal mammary) nodes
- Jugular lymph trunksSubclavian lymph trunksBronchomediastinal trunks
- Right lymphatic duct
- Right venous angle
Detail
- Formed by
- Right internal jugular and right subclavian veins
- Receives
- Right lymphatic duct, or its three trunks separately
- Territory returned
- Right head and neck, right arm, right thorax
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