Spatium retrostyloideum
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Spatium retrostyloideum s a topographic formation located behind the styloid septum.
Borders[edit | edit source]
- cranially - cranial base;
- caudally - trigonum caroticum;
- medially - spatium retropharyngeum;
- laterally - m. sternocleidomastoideus;
- ventrally - septum styloideum;
- dorsally - lamina prevertebralis fasciae cervicalis.
Contents[edit | edit source]
- a. carotis interna,
- v. jugularis interna,
- n. glossopharyngeus - n. IX.,
- n. vagus - n. X.,
- n. accessorius - n. XI.,
- n. hypoglossus - n. XII.,
- truncus symphaticus,
- ganglion cervicale superius,
- a. pharyngea ascendens.
Trigonum caroticum follows the spatium retrostyloideum in the caudal direction, it contains most of its contents.
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Used literature[edit | edit source]
- GRIM, Miloš – DRUGA, Rastislav, et al. Základy anatomie : 5. Anatomie krajin těla. 1. edition. Praha : Galén, 2008. 119 pp. ISBN 978-80-7262-179-8.
- ČIHÁK, Radomír. Anatomie 1. 3. edition. Praha : Grada, 2011. 552 pp. ISBN 978-80-247-3817-8.
