superior thyroid artery
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The superior thyroid artery is a branch of the external carotid artery and supplies the larynx and thyroid gland.
Summary
- origin: branch of the external carotid artery at the level of the hyoid bone
- branches
- hyoid artery
- sterncocleidomastoid branches
- superior laryngeal artery
- cricothyroid branch
- supply: larynx and thyroid gland
- termination: thyroid gland
- variants
- origin at the level of the carotid bifurcation (20%)
- origin from the common carotid artery (10%)
- common origin from
- thyrolingual trunk
- thyrolinguofacial trunk
- key relationships: superior laryngeal nerve
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