Superficial Structures of Upper Limb Flashcards
What bony landmark does the Root of the scapula mark?
T3 Spinous Process
What bony landmark does the superior angle mark?
T2
What does the inferior angle of the scapula mark?
T7 vertebrae, near the inferior border of 7th rib and 7th intercostal space
What is difficult to palpate because of the teres major and minor muscles covering it?
Lateral border of scapula
What fascia invests the pectoralis major and its continuous inferiorly with fascia of anterior abdominal wall?
Pectoral Fascia
Pectoral Fascia leaves lateral border of pectoralis major and becomes?
Axillary Fascia
Deep to the pectoral fascia and pectoralis major which descends from the clavicle, enclosing the subclavius and pectoralis minor, inferiorly with axillary fascia?
Clavipectoral Fascia
What is the part of the clavipectoral fascia between the pectoralis minor and the subclavius?
Costocoracoid Membrane
What structure is pierced by the lateral pectoral nerve, which primarily supplies the pectoralis major?
Costocoracoid membrane
What part of the clavipectoral fascia is inferior to the pectoralis minor?
Suspensory ligament of axilla
What supports the axillary fascia and pulls skin inferior to it upward during abduction of arm?
Suspensory ligament of axilla
Layer that invests in the deltoid, continuos with pectoral fascia anteriorly and dense infraspinous fascia posteriorly?
Deltoid fascia
What deep fascia encloses arm like a snug sleeve?
Brachial Fascia
What fascia is continuos superiorly with the deltoid, pectoral, axillary, and infraspinous fasciae?
Brachial Fascia
What fascia attaches inferiorly to epicondyles of humerus and the olecranon of the ulna and is continuous with the antebrachial fascia?
Brachial Fascia
