The bronchial veins are counterparts to the bronchial arteries. However, they only carry ~13% of the blood flow of the bronchial arteries.[1] The remaining blood is returned to the heart via the pulmonary veins.[1]
bronchial, veins, bronchial, veins, small, vessels, that, return, blood, from, larger, bronchi, structures, roots, lungs, right, side, drains, into, azygos, vein, while, left, side, drains, into, left, superior, intercostal, vein, accessory, hemiazygos, vein, . The bronchial veins are small vessels that return blood from the larger bronchi and structures at the roots of the lungs The right side drains into the azygos vein while the left side drains into the left superior intercostal vein or the accessory hemiazygos vein Bronchial veins are thereby part of the bronchial circulation carrying waste products away from the cells that constitute the lungs Bronchial veinsDetailsDrains toAzygos vein hemiazygos vein and pulmonary veinsArteryBronchial arteryIdentifiersLatinvenae bronchialesTA98A12 3 04 009 A12 3 07 007TA24752FMA70832Anatomical terminology edit on Wikidata The bronchial veins are counterparts to the bronchial arteries However they only carry 13 of the blood flow of the bronchial arteries 1 The remaining blood is returned to the heart via the pulmonary veins 1 See also editBronchial arteries Pulmonary arteries Pulmonary veinsReferences edit a b Charan NB Thompson WH Carvalho P 2007 Functional anatomy of bronchial veins Pulmonary Pharmacology amp Therapeutics 20 2 100 3 doi 10 1016 j pupt 2006 03 004 PMID 16807022 External links editHistology image 13903loa Histology Learning System at Boston University nbsp This cardiovascular system article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Bronchial veins amp oldid 1206250246, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
