Lymph Vessels of the Forelimb Joints

Some of the lymph vessels of the forelimb joints drain to the axillary lymph node and some drain to the superficial cervical lymph nodes.

The lymph vessels of the shoulder joint (Figure 36: c, c, c’) and the elbow joint (Figure 36: a) all drain to the axillary lymph node (Figure 36: d), those of the toe joints (Figures 33: t; 35: 3, 4, 5, 6) drain to the superficial cervical lymph nodes (Figure 33: 3’), and those of the carpal joint (Figures 35: 1, 1, 1’, 1’; 36: b, b’, b’’) drain to both groups of lymph nodes. The lymph vessels that drained to the superficial cervical lymph nodes always drained to the ventral lymph node of that group.