Superior phrenic vein

Superior phrenic vein
Details
Drains from	Thoracic diaphragm
Drains to	Azygos vein hemiazygos vein
Artery	Superior phrenic artery
Identifiers
Latin	Vena phrenica superior
Dorlands /Elsevier	v_05/12851343
TA	A12.3.07.010
FMA	70888
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

The superior phrenic vein, i.e., the vein accompanying the pericardiacophrenic artery, usually opens into the internal mammary vein.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

Veins of the thorax and vertebral column

Thorax

Coronary

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

Pulmonary

superior
vena cava

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

Vertebral column

vertebral venous plexuses
- external
- internal
spinal
- posterior
- anterior
basivertebral
intervertebral

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