Posterior View of Pharynx: Nerves and Vessels
Anatomy
Facial and vestibulocochlear nerves (CN VII, CN VIII), Occipital artery, Ascending pharyngeal artery, Superficial temporal artery, Internal carotid artery, External
carotid artery, Facial artery, Superior thyroid artery, Pharyngeal venous plexus, Internal jugular vein, Common carotid
artery, Inferior thyroid artery, Thyrocervical trunk, Vertebral
artery, Subclavian artery.
Sigmoid sinus, Superior and inferior ganglia of vagus nerve (CN X), Hypoglossal nerve (CN XII), Accessory nerve (CN XI), Stylopharyngeus muscle, Glossopharyngeal nerve (CN IX), Superior cervical ganglion, Recurrent
laryngeal nerve, Superior view
of the skull base showing line of cut and the removed part, Glossopharyngeal
nerve (CN IX) Facial nerve (CN VII) and stylomastoid artery.
Superior laryngeal nerve, Angle of the
mandible, Pharyngeal branch of
vagus nerve, Pharyngeal nervous plexus, Superior cervical cardiac nerve, Thyroid and
parathyroid glands, Middle
cervical ganglion, Common carotid
artery, Internal carotid artery, Sympathetic trunk, Esophagus, Vagus nerve (CN X) (cut).