Fig. 10From: An additional challenge for head and neck radiologists: anatomic variants posing a surgical risk – a pictorial reviewThyroid ima artery. Axial CT scan: a thin artery arises from the right common carotid artery (arrow in c), bends inferiorly (arrow in d) and then turns upwards (arrowheads in b and c) to reach the lower pole of the left thyroid gland lobe (asterisk in a)Back to article page