Our approach used a wide cervicotomy by Paul Andre’s “J” incision removing the skin, the subcutaneous cellular tissue and the platysma. The reclination of the anterior flap gave us access to the ...

A 77-year-old man with a squamous cell carcinoma of the right border of the tongue, clinical stage T2N0, underwent a partial glossectomy and a right supra-omohyoid neck dissection. During neck ...

NOTE. The intersection of the omohyoid muscle and internal jugular vein, which aligns with the lower border of the cricoid cartilage, was used as a demarcation to divide the common carotid artery into ...

An alternative to ISB could be the superior trunk block and the sub-omohyoid suprascapular nerve block. 5, 6 Some studies have shown that both techniques promote similar analgesic effect as the ISB ...

A 23-year-old woman presented to clinic for evaluation of neck pain, right hand and ulnar forearm numbness and tingling. She reported several years of neck pain and right upper extremity &ldquo ...

DISCUSSION. The omohyoid muscle is the best landmark for identifying the internal jugular vein (IJV); thus any variation in this muscle may increase the risk of injuring the IJV during surgeries in ...

Background: The aim of oral cancer surgery is tumor removal within clear margins of healthy tissue: the latter definition in the literature, however, may vary between 1 and 2 cm, and should be ...

The patient was clinically staged as T2N0M0 and underwent a partial resection of the mandible and suprascapulohyoid ND. During the ND, the IJV divided into two branches (anterior and posterior) ...

Conversations That Matter: Why woodpeckers don't get concussed. A combination of physical structures and the role of carbon dioxide figure in preventing woodpecker concussions ...