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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1969</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>VARIANT ORIGIN OF LINGUOFACIAL TRUNK&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Padmini</surname><given-names>M. Pramila</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rao</surname><given-names>B. Narasinga</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume/><issue/><fpage>88</fpage><lpage>90</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>External carotid artery is a vascular system constituting the nourishment to the territorial region of head and neck. In the present report the linguofacial trunk arose from single point and ran forwards and medially and then divided into lingual and facial branches in two cadavers. Accurate anatomical knowledge of the vessels of face and neck and their variation in the&#13;
branching pattern has immense surgical importance and adds great value to the precise diagnosis in radiology.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>facial artery</kwd><kwd> lingual artery</kwd><kwd> linguofacial trunk</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
