In the same group are three or four glands which lie entirely under cover of the upper end of the sterno-mastoid muscle, and surround the accessory nerve before it perforates the muscle.
The aneurysm usually springs from the third part of the artery, and appears as a tense, rounded, pulsatile swelling just above the clavicle and to the outer side of the sterno-mastoid muscle.
Permanent# or #true wry-neck# is due to an organic shortening of the sterno-mastoid muscle.
The abscess may bulge towards one or both sides of the neck, and come to the surface behind the posterior border of the sterno-mastoid muscle (Fig.
In rare cases the rhomboid ligament is torn, and the end of the clavicle passes upwards, and rests in the episternal notch behind the sterno-mastoid muscle.
To do this it may be necessary to cut away some of the fibres of the sterno-mastoid muscle.
In addition to the ordinary signs of lateral sinus thrombosis, there may also be infiltration of the tissues, or tenderness along the anterior border of the sterno-mastoid muscle.
If the deep-lying cervical abscess be large, the finger may be passed into the abscess cavity behind the mastoid process, between it and the cut fibres of the sterno-mastoid muscle.
In a female on whom I operated some years since, this advantage could not be obtained on account of induration in the belly of the sterno-mastoid muscle, with contraction.
A second incision, about two inches in length, was carried along the posterior edge of the sterno-mastoid muscle, at a right angle with the preceding.
The sternal attachment of the sterno-mastoid muscle is separated, the cervical fascia divided, the cellular tissue betwixt the sterno-hyoid muscles separated, and the vessel exposed.
The ball entered at the pomum Adami, and passed out by the anterior edge of the right sterno–mastoid muscle.
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