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Anatomy - Fascia
Fasica and their contents
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Medical
Professional
09/20/2010

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Term

 

 

 

Superficial fasciaeSubcutaneous
Definition

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 Platysma muscle
- Facial nerve
- Cutaneous nerves = sensory
- Superficial veins
Term

Investing Layer of Deep Cervical Fascia
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Definition

envelops the entire neck, splits to surround the SCM and trapezius

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Term

Pretracheal layer

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Definition
the muscular portion encloses the infrahyoid (strap) muscles, while the visceral portion surrounds the thyroid gland, laynx, trachea, pharynx, and esophagus
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Term

Preverteral layer

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Definition

surrounds the cervical vertebral column, and the muscles associated with it

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Term

 

 

 

Carotid sheath: 

Definition

encloses the common carotid artery, internal jugular vein, and vagus nerve

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Term

 

 

If infection gets in the retropharyngeal space, what can be compromised?

Definition

posterosuperior mediastinum

 

since the retropharyngeal space lies between the buccopharyngeal fasica and alar fascia

 

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Term

 

 

If infection gets into the prevertebral space, what is at risk?

Definition

Since the inferior boundary is the diagphram, the whole mediastinum is at risk.

 

Boundaries: bet. the prevertebral fascia and the vertebral bodies

 

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Term

If infection gets into the danger space, what can be compromised?

 

 

Definition

Like the prevertebral space, it is bounded inferiorly by the diaphragm, and thus the whole mediastinum can become compromised with infection in the danger space.

Boundaries: alar fascia and prevertebral fascia

 

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