Triangles Of The Neck

Anterior triangle Posterior triangle

Divisions and subdivisions of the neck into triangles

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Digastric triangle
Boundaries Floor

Glands: (1) Submandibular salivary gland. (2) Part of the parotid gland. (3) Submandibular lymph nodes. Vessels: (1) Facial artery (2) Facial vein. (3) Submental artery: (4) Mylohyoid vessels. Nerve: (1) Hypoglossal nerve: lies on the hyoglossus and then disappears under the mylohyoid muscle. (2) Nerve to mylohyoid: superficial to the mylohyoid muscle.

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Relations of hyoglossus muscle

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Carotid triangle
Boundaries Floor

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Vessels: (2) Internal carotid artery.

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(1) Common carotid artery. (3) External carotid artery and 5 of its branches (superior thyroid, ascending pharyngeal, lingual, facial and occipital). (4) Internal jugular vein and 3 of its tributaries (common facial, lingual and superior thyroid). Nerves: last 3 cranial nerves, ansa cervicalis and cervical part of sympathetic chain. Lymph nodes: deep cervical lymph nodes.

Muscular triangle
Boundaries Floor (content)

The infrahyoid muscles are supplied by Ansa cervicalis except the thyrohyoid muscle that is supplies by C1 through the hypoglossal n.

Ansa cervicalis

Submental triangle
Boundaries Floor content

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Contents:
(1) Submental lymph nodes. (2) Submental veins and beginning of anterior jugular vein. (3) Submental artery.

Digastric muscle
Origin, insertion

Mylohyoid muscle

Hyoglossus muscle

Hyoid Bone
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Genioglossus muscle Geniohyoid muscle

Stylohyoid muscle