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Carotid Artery and Guttaral Pouch
Parotid Region, Viborg's Triangle, Carotid Artery, and Guttural Pouch of the Horse
The area where a horse’s head joins the neck, just behind the line of the jaw, is called the parotid area or Viborg's triangle. This area overlies the back of the throat and the larynx and is a complicated mixture of lymph nodes (not shown below), salivary glands (not shown below), large blood vessels and just deep to it all the guttural pouches. In order to illustrate the carotid artery, it's branches, and the guttural pouch the superficial lymph nodes and salivary glands have been removed. The guttural pouch is shaded in blue.To read more on this topic become a member of Horseadvice.com! Your membership gets you instant access to this and over 600 equine articles on our site. Other benefits of your membership include participation in our discussion boards and access to our one button PubMed search tool for each topic.
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