Cervical fascia

The cervical fascia is made up of three sheets: lamina superficialis, pretrachealis et prevertebralis.

Lamina superficialis fasciae cervicalis
Scope: mandible, processus mastoideus, occipital region - ventral surface of manubrium sterni, clavicle, acromion. Caudally, it passes smoothly into the superficial fascia of the chest and the fascia of the deltoid muscle.

Course:


 * It is placed behind the platysma muscle;
 * It envelops the sternocleidomastoid muscle and the trapezius muscle, being named fascia nuchae in its extent;
 * It fuses with the tongue.

Lamina pretrachealis fasciae cervicalis
Range: os hyoideum – after the musculi infrahyoidei to the dorsal surface of the manubrium sterni. Laterally from the omohyoid muscle, it passes into the lamina superficialis of the cervical fascia.

Course:


 * the vagina carotica departs from it.

Lamina prevertebralis fasciae cervicalis
Scope: covers prevertebral muscles and musculi scaleni.

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