THE ACCESSORY MUSCLES OF THE NECK

Abstract

Relevance. Despite the fact that surgical anatomy organs of the neck is investigated by many scientists and surgeons since ancient times, the study of the structure of this region in our time opens a new interesting and amazing facts in the morphology of the human body.

Material and methods. In the course of the study, 426 not embalmed corpses of persons who died from acute pathology, not related to the neck organs, were studied.

Results. The infrahyoid muscle can be considered as an independent neck muscle, if it has its own independent point of origin and attachment, different from those of a number of located muscles, and also it must be covered with its own fascia (80% of the detected additional muscles). The muscle was considered a derivative (20% of detected additional muscles) at their common place of origin or attachment with the well-known infrahyoid muscles. Among the organocomplexes studied, 290 belonged to the male (68% of observations), died at the age from 18 to 83 years. The examined female subjects were 136 (32% of observations), who died at the age of 17 to 85 years (52±16). It was found that the incidence of additional muscles of the infrahyoid area was 41.78% and in people of the opposite sex – the same often.