Cleidooccipital muscle: an anomalous muscle in the neck region.
During our routine dissection studies, we encountered a case with abnormal muscle deep to the sternocleidomastoid muscle. According to its origin, insertion and innervation features, the abnormal muscle was considered as cleidooccipitalis muscle.
Sarikcioglu
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Department of Anatomy, Akdeniz University, Faculty of Medicine, 07070 Antalya, Turkey. levent@med.akdeniz.edu.tr, sarikcioglul@yahoo.com
Donmez
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Ozkan
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D002102:Cadaver; D006801:Humans; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000002:abnormalities*; D009333:Neck / Q000033:anatomy & histology*