Anatomy study note · Thorax

Internal thoracic vein

The vein accompanying the internal thoracic artery. It drains into the brachiocephalic vein on each side.

Key points

• Accompanies the internal thoracic artery.
• Drains into the brachiocephalic vein.
• Receives the anterior intercostal veins.
• Vessels: mesodermal, from angioblastic tissue.
• Vein: thin wall, adventitia thickest, valves.
• Veins hold ~70% of the blood.

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Tributaries · Histology · Development

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Written from

• Snell’s Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 10th ed., ch. 4, PDF p. 511
• Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 15, PDF p. 236
• BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 11, PDF pp. 203–205

More from the thorax

• Interventricular septum
• Joints of the ribs
• Left atrium
• Left coronary artery
• Left ventricle
• Levatores costarum
• Lung
• Lymph nodes of the thoracic wall
• Main and lobar bronchi
• Mediastinal and tracheobronchial lymph nodes
• Mitral valve
• Pulmonary trunk

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