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We report an unusual and multiple variation involving the right head and neck veins which were found during routine dissection in a 50-year-old male cadaver, facial vein draining into both external and internal jugular veins, fenestration in external jugular vein transmitting the supraclavicular nerve trunk, the anterior division of the retromandibular vein draining into anterior jugular vein and the absence of the common facial vein. The knowledge about these variations is important during various surgical and diagnostic procedures involving head and neck region.
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Vani, P.C., Rajasekhar, S.S.S.N. & Gladwin, V. Unusual and multiple variations of head and neck veins: a case report. Surg Radiol Anat 41, 535–538 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00276-019-02203-0
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