www.PRSGO.com 1 Mathieu Bondaz, MD

The anterior facial veins ensure the venous drain-age of the face and have been used as main ve-nous pedicles for facial transplantations. The facial vein starts at the medial angle of the eye like the an-gular vein. Then, it runs obliquely behind the facial artery, crosses over the body of the mandible, and drains into the internal jugular vein through the thyrolinguofacial trunk. At the end of its course, the facial vein joins the retromandibular vein coming from the parotid gland establishing an anastomosis between external and internal jugular veins. We studied the course of 660 facial veins in 330 patients who underwent computed tomography an-giography. There were 195 men and 135 women, with a mean age of 54.5 years, and none of them had a history of head or neck surgery