Artery Thyroid Cranial

The thyroid artery (a. thyreoidea) is an artery in the neck that supplies the thyroid gland and parathyroid glands. It is a branch of the external carotid artery.

The thyroid artery has two trunks: the upper one, which arises from the common carotid artery in the region of the upper edge of the thyroid cartilage, and the lower one, which arises from the internal carotid artery at the level of the upper edge of the sternocleidomastoid muscle. The upper trunk goes to the thyroid gland, and the lower trunk goes to the parathyroid glands.

There is also another type of thyroid artery - the cranial thyroid artery, which originates from the external carotid artery and goes to the upper part of the thyroid gland, where it divides into two trunks - upper and lower.

The cranial thyroid artery (lat. a. thyreoideacranialis) is an arterial vessel of the small and medium group of the cerebral and upper cervical circulation, a paired human organ, passing in the middle third of the neck behind the internal carotid artery and the superior thyroid notch. Thus, it is also located behind these arteries. It runs along one side of the vertebral column