Head And Neck Part 1 Flashcards
What is the Superior Thoracic Aperture Bounded by?
- Superior border of T1 Vertebra
- First ribs
- Suprasternal Notch of the sternum
What is the muscle of facial expression?
Platysma muscle
Where do the muscles of facial expression insert into?
Skin
-move skin at the joints
Which jugular vein may be absent in people?
External jugular vein
What is the origin, insertion and action of the sternocleidomastoid muscle?
O: sternum and clavicle
I: Mastoid process
A: turns face toward contralateral side
-Turns occipital toward ipsilateral side
What is the nerve supply of the sternocleidomastoid muscle?
Motor: Accessory Nerve
Proprioception: branches of anterior rami of C3 and C4 spinal nerves
What is congenital muscular torticollis?
Injury of the sternocleidomastoid muscle
-during intra-uterine or during delivery
How does a patient present with congenital muscular torticollis?
Chin rotated toward the contralateral side and head tilted lateral toward the ipsilateral side
*If right sternocleidomastoid muscle is injured then chin is rotated toward the left and head titled to the right
What is spasmodic torticollis?
Cervical dystopia of the sternocleidomastoid muscle
-painful
How does a patient present with spasmodic torticollis?
sustained rotation and lateral flexion of the neck
What does the investing fascia of the neck have within it?
Splits to invest the two muscles supplied by cranial nerve XI
What does the investing fascia of the neck inhibit?
Spread of infection from skin to deeper structures
What does the carotid sheath contain?
Carotid arteries
Internal jugular vein
Vagus Nerve (CN X)
What does the prevertebral fascia contain?
Prevertebral and paravertebral muscles
From anterior to posterior what are the different spaces of the neck?
- Suprasternal space
- Pretracheal space
- Retropharyngeal space
- Danger space
What are the boundaries of the posterior triangle?
- Sternocleidomastoid muscle
- Trapezius muscle
- Clavicle
What is within the posterior triangle?
Erb’s Nerve Point of the Neck
-Has cervical plexus nerves from Anterior Rami of C1-C5 Spinal nerves
-Emerge deep to the sternocleidomastoid muscle
Where is Erb’s Nerve Point of the Neck located?
Halfway up posterior border of sternocleidomastoid muscles
What are the different nerves that come off the Cervical Plexus?
- Great auricular nerves
- Lesser occipital nerves
- Transverse cervical nerve
- Supraclavicular nerves
What do the supraclavicular nerves supply?
Skin of the lower neck
-descend and pass superficial to clavicle
What dermatomes do the supraclavicular nerve supply?
C3
C4
What do the Transverse Cervical Nerves supply?
Skin of Anterior Triangle
-Cross sternocleidomastoid horizontally
What dermatomes does the Transverse Cervical Nerves supply?
C2
C3
What does the Great Auricular Nerve supply?
Supplies skin between the Mastoid Process of the Temporal Bone and Angle of the Mandible
-crosses Sternocleidomastoid vertically
What will the External jugular vein run with if its present?
Great Auricular Nerve
What dermatomes does the Great Auricular Nerve supply?
C2
What does the Lesser Occipital Nerve supply?
Supplies skin posterior to the ear
-runs vertically along posterior border of the sternocleidomastoid muscle
What dermatome does the Lesser Occipital Nerve Supply?
C2
Where does the Accessory Nerve run to from the brain?
- Passes deep to Sternocleidomastoid Muscle (supplies it)
- Passes along the floor of the Posterior Triangle-toward Trapezius muscle (supplies it)
Where is the Danger Area located?
Lower Half of Posterior Triangle
What separates the Posterior Triangle and Anterior Triangle?
Sternocleidomastoid Muscle
Are there any protections of the anterior neck?
No
-anterior neck is vulnerable to penetrating injuries to the neck
What are the palpable landmarks of the anterior neck?
Hyoid Bone
Thyroid cartilage
Cricoid cartilage
Tracheal Rings
What palpable landmarks make up the larynx?
Thyroid cartilage
Cricoid cartilage
From proximal to distal what are the bony and cartilaginous parts of the neck?
Hyoid Bone
Thyrohyoid membrane
Laryngeal Prominence
Thyroid Cartilage
Cricoid Cartilage
Thyroid glands
Trachea
What is the difference between the thyroid cartilage (laryngeal prominence) from women to men?
Women: wider and flatter
Men: Longer and pointy-er
What are the subdivision of the anterior triangle of the neck?
- Submandibular Triangle
- Carotid Triangle
- Muscular Triangle
- Submental Triangle
How are the infrahyoid muscle named?
For their inferior attachment + Superior attachment
What are the superficial infrahyoid muscles?
- Omohyoid muscle
- Sternohyoid
What are the deep infrahyoid muscles called?
- Thyrohyoid muscle
- Sternothyroid muscle
What are the Suprahyoid muscles?
- Digastric muscle
- Mylohyoid muscle
- Stylohyoid muscle
- Geniohyoid muscle
Where do the Submental lymph nodes receive lymph from?
- Tongue
- Floor of the mouth
- Lower incisors
- gingiva
- Central part of lower lip
- Skin of chin
What are enlarged lymph nodes indicative of?
Carcinoma
Or Infections from these areas
What are the structures of the submandibular triangle?
- Facial Vein
- Facial Artery
- Anterior belly of digastric muscle
- Submandibular glands
- Submandibular lymph nodes
Where do the facial vein and artery pass?
Vein: superficial
Artery: deep
*to the submandibular gland
What is the hypoglossal nerve?
CN XII
-motor to tongue muscles
-passes superficial to hyoglossus muscle, then deep to mylohyoid muscle
Where is the carotid fossa located?
Between the neck viscera and sternocleidomastoid muscles
-Carotid pulse point located here
What is in the carotid sheath? (Which is located in the carotid triangle)
- Carotid arteries
- Internal jugular vein
- Vagus nerve CN X
What comes off of CN XII (hypoglossal nerve)
Superior Root of Ana’s Cervicalis
What does the superior root of Ansa Cervicalis arises from?
Anterior Ramus of C1 Spinal Nerve
-jumps on CN XII, then falls off
What does the inferior root of Ansa Cervicalis arise from?
Anterior Rami of C2 and C3 spinal nerves
-makes a loop
What is the nerve supply of the infrahyoid muscles?
Ansa Cervicalis
What does the Ansa Cervicalis supply?
- Sternohyoid
- Omohyoid
- Sternothyroid
What is the nerve supply of the Thyrohyoid muscle?
Nerve to the Thyrohyoid muscle
Does the internal carotid artery have any branches?
No branches in the neck