pterygoid plexus การใช้

• The pterygoid plexus of veins becomes the maxillary vein.
• Some vortex veins drain into the inferior orbital vein which drains into the pterygoid plexus.
• It is formed by a confluence of the veins of the pterygoid plexus, and passes backward between the sphenomandibular ligament and the neck of the mandible, and unites with the superficial temporal vein to form the retromandibular vein.