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Great Auricular Nerve

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Abstract

The mastoid branch of the great auricular nerve may arise independently from the cervical plexus, in which case it passes upward between the lesser occipital and great auricular nerves to reach its destination. The great auricular nerve may arise solely from the third or from the third and fourth cervical nerves.

The mastoid branch of the great auricular nerve may arise independently from the cervical plexus, in which case it passes upward between the lesser occipital and great auricular nerves to reach its destination.

The great auricular nerve may arise solely from the third or from the third and fourth cervical nerves.

Riferimenti dell’opera originale

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  • Cordier, -., Coulouma, -., Devos, -. et -. Delcroix. (1936) Contribution a l'étude de la constitution du plexus cervical chez l'homme et quelques primates. Assoc. Anatomistes Comptes Rendus 31:114-123.
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  • Latarjet, A. (1948) Testut's Traité d'Anatomie Humaine, 9th ed., G. Doin & Co., Paris

Anatomical classification

Systems:
Nervous system

Content provenance

Translation

Italian translation of «Great Auricular Nerve — Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus I: Muscular System» by Ronald A. Bergman, Adel K. Afifi, Ryosuke Miyauchi. Source: https://www.anatomyatlases.org/AnatomicVariants/NervousSystem/Text/GreaterAuricularNerve.shtml Original work distributed under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.it). Translation by Redazione AIVA. Changes from the original: Traduzione italiana del testo originale inglese, che resta consultabile nella versione inglese di questa pagina. Il contenuto è stato riorganizzato nel formato scheda del portale (sintesi, testo, riferimenti) senza modificarne le affermazioni. Le figure non sono state copiate: sono collegate alla pagina d’origine. This publication is not approved or endorsed by the authors of the original work.

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