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muscular/inferior carotid/omotracheal/tracheal triangle

The triangle bounded by the sternocleidomastoid, superior belly of the omohyoid & the anterior midline of the neck; infrahyoid muscles occupy most of it. Main contents: -> sternothyroid & sternohyoid muscles -> thyroid & parathyroid glands

General

anatomic structure

References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.
  2. Clinically Oriented Anatomy, 4th edition, KL Moore & AF Dalley (eds), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA 1999.

Component-of

posterior triangle of neck (lateral region)