[The surgical anatomy of the long muscles of the neck and head and the potentials for their use in reconstructive operations on the palatopharyngeal sphincter]

Abstract

The authors analyze the results of topographoanatomic studies of the prevertebral muscles of the neck, carried out in 37 nonfixed human corpses. They substantiate the possibility of leaving intact the vasculonervous branches in cutting and translocating towards the soft palate of the grafts on an upper peduncle from long muscles of the neck and head.