Neck Flashcards
What are the fascia layers of the neck ?
- Skin
- Superficial Cervical Fascia
- Deep Fascia
- Investing Fascia
- Pretracheal Fascia
- Prevertebral Fascia
- Alar Fascia
- Carotid Sheath
What is found in the Superficial Cervical Fascia?
Platysma Muscle
What is found in the Investing fascia?
- Trapezius
- SCM
What are the 3 different components to the Pretracheal Fascia?
- Muscular
- Visceral
- Buccopharyngeal
What is found in the Muscular component of the Pretracheal Fascia?
-Infrahyoid Muscles
What is found in the Visceral Component of the Pretracheal Fascia?
-Thyroid Gland
The Buccopharyngeal portion of the Pretracheal fascia helps to corner two things snugly into the thyroid gland at the level of the throat. What are those two things?
- Trachea
2. Esophagus
What is the name of the space found directly posterior to the Buccopharyngeal Fascia?
-Retropharyngeal space
What is found within the Prevertebral Fascia?
- Deep Cervical muscles
- Levator Scapulae
- Anterior, Middle, and Posterior Scalenes
- Longus Coli muscle
- Alar Fascia * (not necessarily within but connected to)
What runs in between the Alar Fascia and the Prevertebral Fascia?
The Sympathetic Trunk
What is the space called through which the sympathetic trunk runs? (The space between the alar fascia and the Prevertebral fascia)
Alar Space
What is contained within the Carotid Sheath?
- Internal Jugular Vein
- Carotid Artery
- Vagus Nerve
What makes up the Ansa cervicalis and what spinal nerves do those parts come from?
- Superior root: comes from C1
2. Inferior root: comes from C2-C3
Where does the lesser occipital nerve come from?
C2
Where dos the Great auricular nerve come from?
C2-C3
Where does the Transverse Cervical Nerve come from?
C2-C3
Where does the Supraclavicular nerve come from?
C3-C4
What nerve runs just adjacent to the superior root of Ansa cervicalis?
Hypo glossary nerve (CN XII)
What are all the muscles innervated by Ansa cervicalis and where do those innervations originate from?
- Inferior belly of omohyoid (C2-C3)
- Sternohyoid (C1-C3)
- Superior Belly of Omohyoid (C1)
Where does innervation for the geniohyoid and thyrohyoid muscles come from?
C1
**doesn’t look like its part of Ansa cervicalis though. It branches off of the superior root before the loop
Which nerves are involved in cutaneous innervation?
- Lesser Occipital
- Great Auricular
- Transverse Cervical
- Supraclavicular
Which nerves are involved in muscle innervation?
- Ansa cervicalis
What are the 3 Subdivisions of the cervical plexus?
- Cutaneous
- Diaphragm
- Muscle
What is responsible for providing blood supply to the Neck and Face?
External Carotid Artery (ECA)
What supplies blood to the brain?
Internal Carotid Artery (ICA)
What Drains blood from the head, neck, and face?
- Internal Jugular Vein (IJV)
2. External Jugular Vein (EJV)
What are two major distinguishing features of the Internal Carotid Artery?
- Carotid Sinus
2. Carotid Body
What important things are in the carotid sinus and why?
- Baroreceptors: sensory for pressure
2. Chemoreceptors: sensory for O2/CO2 levels
What are the branches that come off the External Carotid Artery?
- Superior Thyroid
- Ascending Pharyngeal
- Lingual
- Facial
- Occipital
- Posterior Auricular
- Maxillary
- Superficial Temporal
What is supplied with blood via the superior thyroid artery?
- Anterior Strap muscles
- Thyroid Cartilage
- Larynx
- Thyroid Gland
- SCM
What is supplied by blood via Ascending Pharyngeal?
- Pharyngeal Muscles
- Inner Tympanic region
- Posterior Meningeal Artery
What is supplied with blood via the lingual Artery?
- Oral Cavity and floor
- Tongue
- Epiglottis
- Sublingual Glands