Undivided Retromandibular Vein Continuing As External Jugular Vein With Facial Vein Draining Into It : An Anatomical Variation

Despite the fact that the blueprint of the whole body is unravelled, faultlessly during the growth anddevelopment of an animal; but amazingly variations do occur. During routine dissection of head and neckin a middle aged cadaver in the Post Graduate Department of Anatomy of this medical college, we foundvariation in the formation of external jugular vein on both sides, which was formed by the continuation ofundivided trunk of retromandibular vein. The facial vein and posterior auricular vein were the tributaries ofexternal jugular vein. The sound anatomical knowledge of variations of the veins of head and neck isessential to the success of surgical procedures. The embryological evaluation of the above anomaly wasdone and compared with the available literature which showed that the observed variation was rare