• Fascial spaces (also termed fascial tissue spaces or tissue spaces) are potential spaces that exist between the fasciae and underlying organs and other...
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    Deep cervical fascia (category Fascial spaces of the head and neck)
    The deep cervical fascia (or fascia colli in older texts) lies under cover of the platysma, and invests the muscles of the neck; it also forms sheaths...
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    The submental space is a fascial space of the head and neck (sometimes also termed fascial spaces or tissue spaces). It is a potential space located between...
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    The sublingual space is a fascial space of the head and neck (sometimes also termed fascial spaces or tissue spaces). It is a potential space located...
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    The submandibular space is a fascial space of the head and neck (sometimes also termed fascial spaces or tissue spaces). It is a potential space, and...
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    space of the head and neck (sometimes also termed fascial spaces or tissue spaces). It is a potential space in the side of the head, and is paired on...
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    The pterygomandibular space is a fascial space of the head and neck (sometimes also termed fascial spaces or tissue spaces). It is a potential space in...
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    The buccal space (also termed the buccinator space) is a fascial space of the head and neck (sometimes also termed fascial tissue spaces or tissue spaces)...
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    The submasseterric space (also termed the masseteric space) is a fascial space of the head and neck (sometimes also termed fascial spaces or tissue spaces)...
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    The deep temporal space is a fascial space of the head and neck (sometimes also termed fascial spaces or tissue spaces). It is a potential space in the...
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    The retropharyngeal space (abbreviated as "RPS") is a potential space and deep compartment of the head and neck situated posterior to the pharynx. The...
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  • cavity Epidural space (within the skull) Subdural space Peritoneal cavity Hepatorenal recess Buccal space Fascial spaces of the head and neck Saladin, Kenneth...
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    The canine space (also termed the infra-orbital space) is a fascial space of the head and neck (sometimes also termed fascial spaces or tissue spaces)...
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    The mental space is a fascial space of the head and neck (also termed fascial spaces or tissue spaces). It is a potential space, bilaterally located in...
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    The pretracheal fascia is a layer of the deep cervical fascia at the front of the neck. It attaches to the hyoid bone above, and - extending down into...
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    Temporal fascia (category Fascial spaces of the head and neck)
    Illustrated Anatomy of the Head and Neck (5th ed.). St. Louis: Elsevier. p. 266. ISBN 978-0-323-39634-9. This article incorporates text in the public domain...
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    The parapharyngeal space (also termed the lateral pharyngeal space), is a potential space in the head and the neck. It has clinical importance in otolaryngology...
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  • temporal space Epidural space Extraperitoneal space Fascial spaces of the head and neck Infratemporal space Intercostal space Intermembrane space Interstitial...
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    Thoracolumbar fascia (category Fascial spaces of the head and neck)
    The thoracolumbar fascia (lumbodorsal fascia or thoracodorsal fascia) is a complex,: 1137  multilayer arrangement of fascial and aponeurotic layers forming...
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    Illustrated Anatomy of the Head and Neck (5th ed.). St. Louis: Elsevier. p. 267. ISBN 978-0-323-39634-9. Morton, David A. (2019). The Big Picture: Gross...
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  • Parotid fascia (category Fascial spaces of the head and neck)
    knowledge regards the superficial layer to be continuous with the fascia of the platysma, and the deep layer to be derived from the deep cervical fascia...
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    Alar fascia (category Fascial spaces of the head and neck)
    Fehrenbach, Margaret J.; Herring, Susan W. (2017). Illustrated Anatomy of the Head and Neck (5th ed.). St. Louis: Elsevier. p. 267. ISBN 978-0-323-39634-9. Kyung...
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    Buccopharyngeal fascia (category Fascial spaces of the head and neck)
    Andry; De Caro, Raffaele (eds.), "4 - Fasciae of the Head and Neck", Functional Atlas of the Human Fascial System, Churchill Livingstone, pp. 103–139,...
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    determine the direction of spread (see fascial spaces of the head and neck). There may be systemic upset, with an onset of pain and fever. A periodontal...
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    of a danger-space infection". Ear, Nose & Throat Journal. Retrieved 2008-02-18. Grodinsky M, Holyoke EA. The fasciae and fascial spaces of the head,...
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  • Pharyngobasilar fascia (category Fascial spaces of the head and neck)
    The pharyngobasilar fascia is a fascia of the pharynx. It is situated between the mucous and muscular layers of the pharynx.[citation needed] It is formed...
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  • Mouth infection (category Diseases of oral cavity, salivary glands and jaws)
    primary spaces can spread to fascial planes between the muscles of mastication (masseter, medial pterygoid, and temporalis) or within the deep neck spaces. The...
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    Anatomy Head & Neck. kolkata: Current books international. pp. 126–128. ISBN 978-81-86793-79-4. Sagittal Section Showing Deep Cervical Fascial Layers Infrahyoid...
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    Submental lymph nodes (category Lymphatics of the head and neck)
    bellies of the digastric muscle and the hyoid bone. The submental lymph nodes are situated in the submental fascial space. They are situated close to the midline...
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    Masseteric fascia (category Fascial spaces of the head and neck)
    constituting the parotideomasseteric fascia - to form a fascial compartment that encloses the masseter muscle as well as the medial and lateral pterygoid...
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