Deep Neck and Viscera Flashcards
The deep structures of the neck are the (…), located posterior to the cervical viscera and anterolateral to the vertebral column, and structures located on the cervical side of the (…), the root of the neck
- prevertebral muscles
- superior thoracic aperture
What lies directly posterior to the retropharyngeal space?
- anterior and lateral vertebral muscles (or prevertebral muscles)
- What do the lateral vertebral muscles consist of?
- Generally, what is their function?
- What do the scalene muscles (anterior, middle, posterior) help do?
- rectus capitis lateralis, splenius capitis, levator scapulae, middle and posterior scalene muscles
- stabilize the cervical vertebrae; flex the neck
- help elevate the rib cage; laterally flex neck
Which lateral vertebral muscles like posterior to the neurovascular plane of the cervical and brachial plexuses and subclavian artery?
- splenius capitis
- levator scapulae
- middle and posterior scalene muscles
Which lateral vertebral muscle lies in the floor of the lateral cervical region?
rectus capitis lateralis
- What are the anterior vertebral muscles of the neck?
- What are their actions?
- longus colli: flex neck; bending of C2-C7
- longus capitis: flexion of head on neck; bending head relative to vertebral column at the atlanto-occipital joints
- rectus capitis anterior: flexion of head on neck; bending head relative to vertebral column at the atlanto-occipital joints
- anterior scalene: flexes neck laterally; elevates 1s ribs during forced inspiration
What is the innervation of the anterior vertebral neck muscles?
- longus colli: anterior rami C2-C6 spinal nn
- longus capitis: anterior rami C1-C3 spinal nn
- rectus capitis anterior: branches from loop b/w C1-C2 spinal nn
- anterior scalene: cervical spinal nerves C4-C6
What muscles are the lateral vertebral neck muscles?
- rectus capitis lateralis
- splenius capitis
- levator scapulae
- middle scalene
- posterior scalene
- What is the action of splenius capitis?
- What is the action of levator scapulae?
- What is the action of rectus capitis lateralis?
- What is the action of middle scalene?
- What is the action of psoterior scalene?
- splenius capitis: laterally flexes and rotates head/neck to same side; acting bilaterally, extends head and neck
- levator scapulae: elevates scapula and tilts glenoid cavity inferiorly by rotating scapula
- rectus capitis lateralis: flex head, helps stabilize it
- middle scalene: flex neck laterally, forced inspiration, elevate 1st rib
- posterior scalene: flex neck laterally, elevates 2nd rib during forced inspiration
What is the innervation of the splenius capitis and levator scapulae muscles?
- splenius capitis: posterior rami of middle cervical spinal nerves
- levator scapulae: dorsal scapular nerve and cervical spinal nn C3 and C4
- What is the action of the rectus capitis lateralis?
- What is the action of middle scalene?
- What is the action of posterior scalene?
- flexes head, helps stabilize it
- flexes neck laterally, forced inspiration, elevates rib 1
- flexes neck laterally, elevates 2nd rib during forced inspiration
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What nerve goes through the scalene muscles?
phrenic n
- What is the junctional area between the thorax and the neck?
- Why is this an important area?
- root of the neck
- it lies superior to the superior thoracic aperture and all structures that pass between the head and thorax (upper limb and thorax) must pass through the root of the neck
What are the boundaries of the root of the neck (anterior, posterior, inferior)?
- anterior: manubrium of sternum
- posterior: body of T1 vertebra
- inferior: laterally by 1st pair of ribs and their costal cartilages
- What is the brachiocephalic trunk covered by?
- What does it divide into?
- What is its pathway?
- What is the largest branch of the aorta?
- sternohyoid and sternothyroid muscles
- right common carotid and right subclavian artery
- arises in midline, posterior to manubrium, passes superolaterally to the right
- brachiocephalic trunk
- What do the subclavian arteries supply?
- What does the right subclavian artery arise from?
- What about the left subclavian artery?
- upper limbs; send branches to neck and brain
- brachiocephalic trunk
- arch of the aorta
- What muscle divides the subclavian artery into 3 parts?
- What is the position of these parts in relation to the muscle?
- anterior scalene muscle
- first mart is medial to m, second is posterior to m, third is lateral to m
What arises off the different parts of the subclavian artery?
- first part: vertebral a., internal thoracic a., thyrocervical trunk
- second part: costocervical trunk
- third part: dorsal scapular a.
What vertebral level does the vertebral artery start?
C6
- The cervical part of the vertebral artery arises from (…)
- It then scends in the pyramidal space formed between the (…) and (…) muscles
- The artery then passes through foramina of the transverse processes of (…)
- first part of the subclavian artery
- scalene and longus muscles
- C1-C6
- What are the terminal branches of the thyrocervical trunk?
- What do these supply
- inferior thyroid artery
- primary visceral artery of neck
- ascending cervical artery
- lateral muscles of the upper neck
- What arises posteriorly from the second part of the subclavian artery? (posterior to the (…) on the right side and usually just medial to (…) on the left side)
- What does this divide into?
- What do they supply?
- costocervical trunk
- anterior scalene muscle
- this muscle (scalene)
- superior intercostal and deep cervical arteries
- first 2 intercostal spaces and posterior deep cervical muscles
What supplies the deep cervical muscles?
costocervical trunk
What are the 2 veins that terminate in the root of the neck?
- external jugular vein
- anterior jugular vein
- What does the external jugular vein drain?
- What veins unite across the midline to form the jugular venous arch in the suprasternal space?
- scalp, face, anterior jugular vein
- anterior jugular veins
What are the layers of the cervical viscera in the deep neck and what do they contain?
- endocrine layer: thyroid and parathyroid
- respiratory layer: larynx and trachea
- alimentary layer: pharynx and esophagus
Parathyroid glands are not normally stimulated by (…) innervation, they are (…) stimulated
- cranial innervation
- endocrine stimulated
- What do the thyroid and parathyroid like deep and superficial to?
- What vertebral levels do these glands extend from?
- deep: infrahyoid muscles
- superficial: larynx and trachea
- C5-T1
What unites the lobes of the thyroid glands over the trachea and is usually anterior to the second and third tracheal rings?
isthmus
What is the thyroid gland surrounded by and what does it send deep into the gland?
- thin fibrous capsule; sends septa deep into the gland
- What supplies blood to the thyroid gland?
- What do these vessels lie between?
- paired superior and inferior thyroid arteries
- b/w fibrous capsule and loose fascial sheath
- What is the first branch off of the external carotid artery?
- What does it supply?
- What is the largest branch of the thyrocervical trunks?
- What does it supply?
- superior thyroid aa
- thyroid gland
- inferior thyroid aa
- thyroid gland
- What pairs of veins drain the thyroid plexus of veins on the anterior surface of the thyroid gland and trachea?
- What parts of the thyroid do these veins drain?
- superior thyroid veins: superior poles of thyroid gland
- middle thyroid veins: middle lobes of the thyroid gland
- inferior thyroid veins: inferior poles of thyroid gland
- What do the superior and middle thyroid veins drain into?
- What does the inferior thyroid vein drain into?
- internal jugular veins
- brachiocephalic veins posterior to the manubrium
What is the passage of lymphatic vessels of they thyroid gland (drainage) in the deep neck?
- lymphatic vessels communicate w/ capsular network of lymphatic vessels
- pass initially to prelaryngeal nodes
- pretracheal nodes
- taratracheal nodes
- superior deep cervical nodes
- inferior deep cervical nodes
- What are the nerves of the thyroid gland derived from?
- These vessels reach the gland through (…) and (…) that accompany the thyroid arteries
- What are these fibers and what do they cause?
- superior, middle, and inferior cervical sympathetic ganglia
- cardiac and superior and inferior thyroid peri-arterial plexuses
- vasomotor, causing constriction of blood vessels
The thyroid gland does not have (…) fibers because it is (…) regulated
- secretomotor
- endocrine regulated