title: Anatomical anomaly of human digastric muscles.
abstract: In the submandibular region an anatomical anomaly of muscle arrangement was found. Between the left and right digastric muscles, asymmetric accessory digastric muscles were detected, which all arose from the mandible and were attached to the hyoid bone. Furthermore, the right anterior digastric muscle had an accessory belly. These anomalies of digastric muscles may be anatomical manifestations of a functional support of the mylohyoid muscle.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Anatomie, Medizinische Universität zu Lübeck, BRD.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Michna
mesh_terms: D005152:Facial Muscles / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007568:Jaw