Cervical fascia

The cervical fascia (Latin cervical fascia, fascia colli also ) is a fascia, which consists of three blades, a superficial, middle and deep layer. These each comprise different parts of the neck.

Superficial lamina

The superficial Journal of the cervical fascia, the superficial lamina, located behind the platysma, envelops the Mm. sternocleidomastoidei and continues dorsally to enclose the entire neck. In the neck, over the trapezius, it goes into the fascia nuchae over.

Lamina praetrachealis

The median Journal of the cervical fascia, the lamina praetrachealis that includes infrahyale muscles, ranging from the hyoid bone to the sternum and clavicle. It is adherent to the carotid sheath ( neurovascular sheath) that contains the internal jugular vein, among others. By train the Mm. omohyoidei can be prevented from collapsing when these negative blood pressure.

Prevertebral lamina

The deep Journal of the cervical fascia, the prevertebral lamina surrounds directly the autochthonous muscles of the neck and the cervical spine further inside. It extends from the skull base to the third thoracic vertebra and goes over there in the fascia endothoracia. The prevertebral lamina includes, among other things, the cervical plexus, which breaks through the superficial lamina at the Erb point ( punctum nervosum ). Before the prevertebral lamina is the peripharyngeum and a space, which passes caudally into the mediastinum. In this inflammatory processes of the neck can descend, as no distinction between the two rooms there.

Sources and Literature

• Schiebler, Korf: Anatomy, 10th Edition, Steinkopff Verlag, Heidelberg, 2007
• Bommas Ebert, Teubner, Voss: Short Textbook of Anatomy and Embryology, 2nd Edition, Thieme, Stuttgart 2006

• Skeletal muscle of the neck