Practical 1 – RCA Head and Neck Face: skeleton, musculature, blood & nerve supply and Parotid gland

  • Boney features in skull
    • Maxilla
    • Nasal bone
    • Zygomatic bone
    • Frontal bone
    • Mandible
    • Parietal bone
    • Occipital bone
    • Temporal bone
  • Base of skull
    • Foramina: external
      • supraorbital foramen (often a notch in older subjects)
      • infraorbital foramen
      • mental foramen
      • mandibular foramen (medial aspect of ramus of mandible)
    • Foramina: base of skull
      • Anterior cranial fossa- cribriform foramen, optic canal, foramen caecum
      • Middle cranial fossa- superior orbital fissure, F rotundum, F ovale, F spinosum, F lacerum, carotid canal
      • Posterior cranial fossa- internal auditory meatus, jugular foramen, hypoglossal canal, Foramen magnum
    • Foramen in inferior surface of the base of skull- stylomastoid F, carotid canal
  • Part of the mandible
  • Facial muscles, nerve and blood supply
    • Orbicularis oris
    • Orbicularis oculi
    • Buccinator
    • Frontalis
    • Platysma
    • Zygomaticus major & minor
  • Scalp layers
  • Sensory innervation of face and neck
  • Parotid gland lying against masseter muscle
  • Facial nerve
  • External carotid artery branches- facial and superficial temporal

Practical 2 – RCA Head and Neck: Temporomandibular joint & Muscles of mastication, Surface Anatomy & General organisation of the Neck, Lymphatic drainage of Face & Neck

  • Muscles of mastication (know approx. attachment, action, nerve supply)
    • Temporalis
    • Masseter
    • Medial pterygoid
    • Lateral pterygoid
  • Temporomandibular joint- boney features and movement with above muscles
    • Muscles in the neck
    • Mylohyoid
    • Digastric
    • Strap/infrahyoid muscles -sternohyoid, sternothyroid, thyrohyoid and omohyoid
  • Lymphatics of face and neck- deep cervical lymph nodes and outlying lymph nodes
    • Infratemporal region
    • Maxillary artery
    • Mandibular nerve
    • Medial and lateral pterygoid muscles
    • Pterygoid plexus of veins
  • Surface marking and vertebral levels of major structures of the neck
    • Sternomastoid
    • Trachea
    • Thyroid and cricoid cartilage
    • Ext jugular vein
    • Common Carotid artery pulse
    • Hyoid bone
    • External jugular vein
    • Carotid artery (pulsation)
    • Atlas, transverse process
  • ECA branches
    • Ascending pharyngeal,
    • superior thyroid,
    • lingual,
    • facial
    • occipital,
    • posterior auricular;
    • superficial temporal and
    • maxillary arteries.
  • Mandibular nerve V3 branches -
    • Meningeal,
    • medial pterygoid,
    • 2 tensor muscles- tensor tympani, tensor palati.
    • Thereafter it splits into 2 divisions:
      • Anterior division (all motor except one)
        • Other muscles of mastication and buccal nerve- sensory one.
      • Posterior division- (all sensory except one)
        • Auriculotemporal, inferior alveolar, lingual and nerve to mylohyoid muscle- motor one.

Practical 3– RCA Head and Neck: Cervical Vertebral Column, Cervical Plexus, Thyroid Gland, & Great Vessels in the Neck

  • Cervical vertebral column
    • Curves
    • Joints- interbody, zygapophyseal joints
  • Specialised joints- atlanto-occipital and atlanto-axial
  • Cervical plexus
    • C1-C4,
    • motor and sensory branches(in posterior triangle of the neck)
    • phrenic,
    • ansa cervicalis n for strap muscles except thyrohyoid- C1
  • Thyroid gland
    • position,
    • blood supply,
    • realtionship with recurrent laryngeal nerve
  • Subclavian artery and branches
  • Common craotid artery
    • external and
    • internal carotid branhces
  • Thoracic duct
  • Layers of cervical deep fascia
    • Investiting
    • Carotid sheath
    • Pretarcheal fascia
    • Prevertebral fascia
  • Tracheostomy and layers that are incised in both emergency and planned tracheostomy

Practical 4– RCA Head and Neck: Pharynx and Larynx

  • Retropharyngeal space
  • Pharynx muscles
    • External 3 layer-
      • Superior constrictor
      • Middle constrictor
      • Inferior constrictor
    • Internal longitudinal 3 layers-
      • salpingopharyngeus,
      • stylopharyngeus
      • palatopharyngeus,
    • Other palate muscle associated with the pharynx
      • tensor veli palatini (tensor palati)
      • levator veli palatini (levator palati)
      • palatoglossus
  • Subdivisions of pharynx, structures and nerve supply
    • Nasopharynx-
      • pharyngeal tonsil (adenoid)
      • opening of auditory (pharyngotympanic) tube
    • Oropharynx
      • palatine tonsil
    • Laryngopharynx
      • laryngeal aditus
      • piriform recess
      • vallecula
  • Larynx-
    • cartilages
    • membranes
    • spaces
    • muscles
    • actions of muscles
    • nerve supply- motor and sensory
  • Lymphoid tissue/ring/Waldeyer’s ring
    • Tubal tonsil
    • Pharyngeal tonsil
    • Palatine tonsil
    • Lingual tonsil
  • Cervical sympathetic trunk and ganglia

Practical 5– RCA Head and Neck: Oral and Nasal cavities, Paranasal Sinuses, Orbit, and the Ear

  • Tongue
    • Extrinsic muscles, identification, innervation action- motor, sensory and taste
  • Teeth
    • general idea of names and number in deciduous and permanent teeth
  • The nasal cavity and the paranasal sinuses (and their openings):
    • Nasal Cavity
      • nasal conchae (turbinates)
      • inerior meatus
      • middle meatus
      • superior meatus
      • spheno-ethmoidal recess
    • Sinuses
      • maxillary
      • frontal
      • ethmoidal - anterior, middle, posterior
      • sphenoidal
    • Nasolacrimal duct
  • Maxillary nerve
  • The orbit
    • boney makeup,
    • openings- superior orbital fissure, inferior orbital fissure, optic canal
    • contents- muscles- names, identification, action, nerve supply
      • eyeball,
      • nerves,
      • ciliary ganglion
      • blood vessel
    • Lacrimal gland
  • Ear – division- external, middle and inner
    • boney features of temporal bone,
    • grooves for greater and lesser petrosal nerves
    • petrosal venous sinuses
  • Submandibular region Muscles
    • anterior and posterior bellies of digastric
    • mylohyoid
    • geniohyoid
    • genioglossus
  • Submandibular and sublingual glands
  • Hyoglossus muscle and structures superficial and deep
  • Innervation and blood supply of the nasal septum
  • Hard palate- bones, nerves