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Anterior cervical spine blood supply: a cadaveric study.

L DunbarH VidakovicS LöfflerN HammerO GilleL BoissiereI ObeidV PointillartJ M VitalDavid Christopher Kieser
Published in: Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA (2019)
Nutrient vessels perforate the cervical vertebrae on their anterior surface. These are derived from a leash of vessels that lie within the pre-vertebral fascia overlying the longus coli muscles. The origin of these vessels is the ascending cervical artery with a variable contribution from the transverse cervical artery.
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