Posterior Triangle

Question 1

Answer 1

Question 2

what are the landmarks of the posterior triangle?

Answer 2

superior limit of the neck -

• lower border of the mandible
• left and right halves of mandible join at the mental symphysis
• body of the mandible
• massenter muscle
• facial artery
• mastoid process of the skull
• superior nuchal line and external occipital proturbance

inferior limit of neck

• in front: jugular/suprasternal notch, sternoclavicular joint, clavical
• posteriorly=Cv7

sternocleidomastoid muscle separates anterior from posterior triangles

Question 3

hyphoid bone