OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The objectives were to discuss the presentation and symptomatology of patients with jugular bulb abnormalities, summarize the literature describing jugular bulb abnormalities, compare methods of treating symptomatic dehiscent jugular bulb, describe a novel surgical technique and pitfalls to repair dehiscent bulbs with hydroxyapatite cement, and present a case series to dem...

Pulsatile tinnitus is a rarely occurring symptom of vascular origin. Most frequently, the symptoms are due to an arteriovenous malformation, to a tumor of the jugular glomus or to a local arterial stenosis. A 39-yr-old Korean male suffering from pulsatile tinnitus of the left ear was diagnosed to have dural arteriovenous malformation of the jugular bulb. Magnetic resonance imaging and angiograp...

An Improved Thermal Dilution Method for Measuring Jugular Venous Flow • The local thermal dilution method of performing serial bilateral measurements of internal jugular venous flow is significantly improved by injecting a bolus of saline rather than by using a continuous injection of saline. New thermistor catheter designs maintain the proper separation between the sites of injection and of sa...

BACKGROUND The variety of surgical approaches to jugular schwannomas makes selection of an approach difficult. The purpose of this study was to define the anatomic elements of these approaches. METHODS Ten adult cadaveric heads were examined. RESULTS There are lateral, posterior, and anterior routes that access various parts of the jugular foramen. Removal of the jugular process of the occi...

The internal jugular vein exits the skull and continues its course, within the carotid sheath, beneath the sternocleidomastoid muscle in a posterolateral approximation to the carotid artery. The jugular bulb is the dilated portion of the jugular vein just below the base of the skull and is the preferred site for blood sampling (see Figure 1). Although blood in the jugular bulb is derived from b...

Vascular anomalies of major venous vessels are rarely seen. Moreover, congenital absence of internal jugular vein is extremely uncommon. In our case, a female patient presented with primary unknown left cervical mass. Cervical ultrasonography demonstrated absence of right internal jugular vein. In addition, computed tomography and dynamic magnetic resonance imaging scans confirmed this diagnosi...

OBJECTIVE A gradient between the jugular vein temperature and core body temperature has been reported in animal and clinical studies; however, the pathophysiological meaning of this phenomenon remains unclear. This study was conducted to identify the temperature gradient between the jugular vein and pulmonary artery in comatose patients after cardiopulmonary resuscitation. MATERIALS AND METHO...