METHOD FOR SURGICAL APPROACH TO UPPER AND LOWER CERVICAL SPINES Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC A61B17/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: planned skin incision is first configured on an anteriolateral neck surface by projection zoning of a clavisternomastoid and a neck median line to be marked with colour graphic lines. A first line extends along a medial border of the clavisternomastoid. A second line extends from a suprasternal notch to the middle of a hyoid shaft. Both of the lines are then combined by drawing a perpendicular third line from a lower border of the middle of a hyoid shaft to the medial border of the clavisternomastoid, thereby forming a projection triangle. Cutaneofascial layers, platysma and subcutaneous fat are incised along the first and third lines to cut out a musculocutaneous flap, which is brought outwards. Underlying soft tissues are dissected to an anterior surface of cervical spinal bodies by splitting subcutaneous fat between a neurovascular bundle and a pharynx, detaching an intracervical fascia, splitting perioesophageal subcutaneous fat and displacing midline organs of the neck in the medial direction, and the neurovascular bundle - in the lateral direction.

EFFECT: method enables reducing a risk of treatment-induced traumatic injuries of the midline organs of the neck, an upper laryngeal nerve, upper and lower thyroid arteries, as well as a parenchyma and an excretory duct of a submandibular salivary gland with optimising topographo-anatomical relations of the incision wound structures, thus providing a surgical angle approaching 90 degrees.

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