Tags: Anatomical Structure, Artery.
The auricular branch of posterior auricular artery is a small artery in the head.It branches of the posterior auricular artery and ascends behind the ear beneath the posterior auricular muscle and is distributed to the back of the auricula upon which it ramifies minutely some branches curving around the margin of the cartilage others perforating it to supply the anterior surface. It anastomoses with the parietal and anterior auricular branches of the superficial temporal artery.
