Carotid triangle is a space at the anterior portion of the neck.
Floor of the carotid triangle.
Medially the floor of the triangle is formed by parts of the thyrohyoid muscle the hyoglossus muscle and the middle and inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscles.
Describe the locations of the superficial and deep cervical lymph nodes.
Name the structures forming the boundaries of carotid triangle.
Constrictores pharyngis medius and inferior.
List the muscles that make the floor of the carotid triangle.
Its floor is formed by parts of the thyrohyoid membrane hyoglossus and the.
The carotid triangle this triangle is important because the common carotid artery ascends into it.
Contents of carotid triangle dr.
Common carotid internal carotid and external carotid its boundaries are.
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However it is the posterior margin of the superior omohyoid muscle that limits the triangle anteriorly and the anterior margin of the sternocleidomastoid posteriorly.
Posteriorly by the anterior.
The carotid triangle dr m idris siddiqui this is a vascular area bounded by the superior belly of the omohyoid the posterior belly of the digastric and the anterior border of the sternoceidomastoid.
Posterior belly of digastric and stylohyoid.
The carotid triangle also contains the carotid sinus a dilated portion of the common carotid and internal carotid arteries.
Carotid triangle is one of the subdivisions of anterior triangle of neck.
It is bound by the sternocleidomastoid muscle by the superior belly of the omohyoid muscle and by the posterior belly of the digastric muscle with the stylohyoideus.
What is the clinical significance of enlargement of the jugulo digastric and jugulo omohyoid.
Superior belly of omohyoid.
It contains the submental lymph nodes which filter lymph draining from the floor of the mouth and parts of the tongue.
Inferiorly hyoid bone.
Superior belly of omohyoid m.
Similar to the muscular triangle the carotid triangle has the omohyoid and sternocleidomastoid muscles as parts of its borders.
It is so called because it contains all the 3 carotid arteries viz.
Hyoglossus and thyrohyoid muscles posterior part.
The carotid triangle 1.
Hyoid bone thyro hyoid m.
Posterior belly of digastric m.
Middle constrictor and inferior constrictor muscles.