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Inferior thyroid artery
The
inferior thyroid artery
is an
artery
in the
neck
. It arises from the
thyrocervical trunk
and passes upward, in front of the
vertebral artery
and
longus colli muscle
. It then turns medially behind the
carotid sheath
and its contents, and also behind the
sympathetic trunk
, the middle
cervical ganglion
resting upon the vessel.
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