**Test 3** - Neck Flashcards
What is the first fascial layer deep to the skin in the neck?
Superficial cervical fascia
What muscle is impregnated in the superficial cervical fascia?
Platysma m.
What is just deep to the superficial cervical fascia?
Investing fascia.
What muscles are in the investing fascia and what innervates them?
Trapezius and SCM
Spinal accessory nerve innervates all three
What is just deep to the investing fascia?
Pretracheal fascia
What are the 3 subdivisions of the pretracheal fascia?
Muscular - Anterior most
Visceral - Ant to the trachea and esophagus
Buccopharyngeal - Post to esophagus and trachea
What muscle is the muscular fascia?
Infrahyoid m.
What gland is in the visceral fascia?
Thyroid gland
What fascia surrounds the vertebral column and associated muscles?
Prevertebral fascia
What mm. are in the prevertebral fascia?
Deep cervical mm. Levator scapulae m Ant scalene m Middle scalene m Post scalene m Longus coli m
What fascia is between the buccopharyngeal fascia and the prevertebral fascia?
Alar fascia
What is embedded in the alar space?
Sympathetic trunk
What is significant about the alar space?
If an oral infection breaks thru into this space, then it can travel unimpeded down to the mediastinum
What is housed in the carotid sheath?
IJV
Carotid a.
Vagus n.
Cervical plexus - look at your drawing on OneNote.
Do it. You need to know this.
What artery serves the neck and face?
ECA
What a serves the brain?
ICA
What vessels drain the head and neck?
IJV
EJV
What is the carotid sinus?
A bulge in the internal carotid a that contains baroreceptors and a carotid body that has chemoreceptors
How do you tell the ECA from the ICA?
The ECA branches extensively. If it goes straight to the brain, it is ICA.
What are the a branches off the ECA?
Sup thyroid a. Asc. Pharyngeal a. Lingual a. Facial a. Occipital a. Post. Auricular a. Maxillary a. Superficial temporal a.
What does the superior thyroid artery serve?
Ant strap muscles Thyroid cartilage Larynx Thyroid gland SCM
What does the ascending pharyngeal artery serve?
Pharyngeal mm.
Inner tympanic region
Post meningeal a.
What does the lingual artery serve?
Oral cavity and floor
Tongue
Epiglottis
Sublingual glands
What does the facial artery serve?
Superficial face and muscles Angular and dorsal nasal Infraorbital Sup and inf labial Inf alveolar Submental
What does the occipital artery serve?
Suboccipital muscles
Dorsal muscles
Skin and scalp (dorsum)
What does the posterior auricular artery serve?
Most inner/middle ear
Posterolateral scalp
What does the maxillary artery serve?
Deep facial structures (teeth, nasal cavity, TMJ, auditory canal, palate, pharynx, middle meningeal artery, muscles of mastication)