Acta Med. 2014, 57: 34-37

https://doi.org/10.14712/18059694.2014.7

MULTIPLE VARIATIONS OF THE SUPERFICIAL JUGULAR VEINS: CASE REPORT AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE

George Paraskevasa, Konstantinos Natsisa, Orestis Ioannidisa, Panagiotis Kitsoulisb, Nikolaos Anastasopoulosa, Ioannis Spyridakisa

aDepartment of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
bDepartment of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

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