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  2. Sternocleidomastoid muscle - Wikipedia

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    The sternocleidomastoid muscle originates from two locations: the manubrium of the sternum and the clavicle. [4] It travels obliquely across the side of the neck and inserts at the mastoid process of the temporal bone of the skull by a thin aponeurosis. [4] [5] The sternocleidomastoid is thick and narrow at its center, and broader and thinner ...

  3. Accessory nerve disorder - Wikipedia

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    There are several options of treatment when iatrogenic (i.e., caused by the surgeon) spinal accessory nerve damage is noted during surgery. For example, during a functional neck dissection that injures the spinal accessory nerve, injury prompts the surgeon to cautiously preserve branches of C2, C3, and C4 spinal nerves that provide supplemental innervation to the trapezius muscle. [3]

  4. Accessory nerve - Wikipedia

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    Like most muscles, control of the trapezius muscle arises from the opposite side of the brain. [8] Contraction of the upper part of the trapezius muscle elevates the scapula. [13] The nerve fibres supplying sternocleidomastoid, however, are thought to change sides (Latin: decussate) twice. This means that the sternocleidomastoid is controlled ...

  5. Fibromatosis colli - Wikipedia

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    Fibromatosis colli (FMC), also termed sternocleidomastoid tumor of infancy, pseudotumor of infancy, [1] and infancy sternocleidomastoid pseudotumor, [2] is an uncommon (incidence: 0.4%–1.3% of live births), congenital tumor in one of the two sternocleidomastoid neck muscles although rare cases have presented with a FMC tumor in both sternocleidomastoid muscles. [3]

  6. Neck dissection - Wikipedia

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    The operation encompasses removal of all the lymph nodes on one side of the neck, and includes removal of the spinal accessory nerve (SAN), internal jugular vein (IJV) and sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM). 1957 – Hayes Martin describes routine use of the radical neck dissection for control of neck metastases.

  7. Triangles of the neck - Wikipedia

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    This space is subdivided into two large triangles by sternocleidomastoid, which passes obliquely across the neck, from the sternum and clavicle below, to the mastoid process and occipital bone above. The triangular space in front of this muscle is called the anterior triangle of the neck; and that behind it, the posterior triangle of the neck.

  8. Investing layer of deep cervical fascia - Wikipedia

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    It surrounds the neck like a collar, it splits around the sternocleidomastoid muscle and the trapezius muscle. It is attached as; Posteriorly - Ligamentum nuchae; Anteriorly - Attached to the hyoid bone; Superiorly - (from backwards to forwards); External occipital protuberance and superior nuchal line of occipital bone; Mastoid process of ...

  9. Vestibulospinal tract - Wikipedia

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    Recent research has shown that damage to the medial vestibulospinal tract alters vestibular evoked myogenic potential in the sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM), [12] [13] which are involved in head rotation. The vestibular evoked myogenic potential is an assessment of the sacculo-collic reflex and a test of function in otolithic organs.