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VETERINARY JOURNAL
Volume 173, Issue 1, Pages 174-177Publisher
BAILLIERE TINDALL
DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2005.08.016
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nerve; yak; cranial cervical ganglion; sympathetic trunk
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The heads and necks of 10 yaks were dissected to study the shape, location, arrangement, and branches of the cranial cervical ganglion. The ganglion was a greyish fusiforin structure, mean length 19.72 mm, width 7.65 mm and depth 4.55 mm, located on the rostrolateral surface of the in. longus capitis. Approximately 25% of the ganglion was covered by the tympanic bulla, the rest by the in. stylohyoideus. The branches of the cranial cervical ganglion included the internal and external carotid nerves, sympathetic trunk and the branches connecting with the glossopharyngeal, vagus and hypoglossal nerves. In one animal the right cranial cervical ganglia was a greyish pyramidal structure 10 mm long, 8 mm wide and 5 mm thick but the left ganglion was similar to those found in the other specimens examined. (c) 2005 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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