Intercostal veins

Vein: Intercostal veins

Intercostal spaces, viewed from the left.
Drains from	intercostal muscle, intercostal space
Artery	intercostal arteries

The intercostal veins are a group of veins which drain the area between the ribs ("costae"), called the intercostal space.

They can be divided as follows:

Anterior intercostal veins
Posterior intercostal veins
- Supreme intercostal vein - 1st intercostal space
- Superior intercostal vein - 2nd, 3rd, and 4th intercostal spaces
- No name for veins in spaces 5-11
- Subcostal vein -- below bottom rib

External links

Coronary sinus	Great cardiac (Left marginal) · Posterior of the left ventricle · Oblique of the left atrium (Ligament of the left vena cava) · Middle cardiac

Small cardiac vein	Anterior cardiac (Right marginal)

Smallest cardiac veins	Right atrial veins · Right ventricular veins

right inferior pulmonary vein · right superior pulmonary vein · left inferior pulmonary vein · left superior pulmonary vein

Brachiocephalic	internal thoracic (anterior intercostal, superior epigastric) · left superior intercostal · supreme · vertebral · subclavian (axillary: lateral thoracic, thoracoepigastric, dorsal scapular, external jugular) · pericardiacophrenic · internal jugular

Azygos	right superior intercostal · bronchial · intercostal/posterior intercostal 5-11 · accessory hemiazygos/hemiazygos · superior phrenic

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