Neck 9/27/16 Flashcards
what are the bones of the neck?
- Vertebrae
- Hyoid Bone
What is the function of the hyoid bone?
Depress Mandible
Elevate Ribs
Depress Larynx
What is the outermost layer of the neck?
Skin
What is the fascial layer below the skin of the neck?
Superficial cervical fascia
What muscle do you find in the superficial cervical fascia?
Platysma muscle
What fascial layer do you find below the superficial cervical fascia?
Deep fascia
How many fascial layers are within the deep fascia?
4
What are the four deep fascial layers?
- Pretracheal fascia
- Prevertebral fascia
- Carotid Sheath
- Investing Fascia
What is the first deep layer fascia?
Investing fascia
What two muscles do you find in the investing fascia?
- Trapezius
- Sternocleidomastoid
What is a second layer near the front of the neck that you find below the investing fascia?
Pretracheal fascia
What nerve innervates the trapezius and SCM muscles?
The spinal accessory nerve
What do find in the pretracheal fascia?
- Infrahyoid muscles
- Thyroid gland
- Buccopharyngeal fascia
What are the three components of the pretracheal fascia?
- Muscular
- Visceral
- Buccopharyngeal
What deep fascial layer do you find behind the pretracheal fascia?
Prevertebral fascia
What do you find in the prevertebral fascia?
- Deep cervical muscles (Splenius/semispinalus)
- Levator Scapulae muscle
- Scalene muscle
- Longus Coli muscle
What do you find in the anterior direction of the prevertebral fascia?
Alar fascia
What is the sympathetic trunk found in?
The prevertebral fascia between the alar fascia and the prevertebral fasica
What are the two danger spaces?
- Retropharygeal space
- Alar Space
What is the deep fascial layer that contains that IJV, Carotid artery, and the vagus nerve?
Carotid Sheath
Where does the cervical plexus come from?
Ventral rami of C1-C4/C5
What three general things does the cervical plexus innervate?
- Cutaneous regions
- Muscular regions
- The diaphragm
What are the four cutaneous nerves from the cervical plexus?
- Lesser Occipital nerve
- Great Auricular nerve
- Transverse cervical nerve
- supraclavicular nerve
Where does the less occipital nerve come from?
C2
Where does 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
Where does the Internal carotid artery serve?
Brain