Surgical Anatomy of the Cervical Plexus and its Branches

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

2. Overview of the Cervical Plexus

3. Anatomy of the lesser occipital nerve

4. Anatomy of the great auricular nerve

5. Anatomy of the transverse cervical nerve

6. Anatomy of the supraclavicular nerves

7. Anatomy of the phrenic nerve

8. Anatomy of the ansa cervicalis

9. Accessory nerve and the cervical plexus

10. Connections between the cervical plexus and cervical sympathetic trunk/ganglia

11. Connections between the cervical plexus and brachial plexus

12. Comparative anatomy of the cervical plexus

13. Variations of the cervical plexus

14. Microanatomy of the cervical plexus

15. Cross sectional anatomy of the cervical plexus

16. Step by step dissection of the cervical plexus

17. Imaging of the cervical plexus

18. Pathology of the cervical plexus

19. Blockade of the cervical plexus

20. Surgery of the cervical plexus

Authors

R. Shane Tubbs Professor and Program Director, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana and Department of Neurosurgery and Ochsner Neuroscience Institute Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA. R. Shane Tubbs, MS, PA-C, PhD is a native of Birmingham, Alabama, USA and a is a clinical anatomist, author, editor, educator, and researcher. He is Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology, Surgery, and Structural & Cellular Biology, Director of Surgical Anatomy at Tulane School of Medicine and Program Director of Anatomical Research in the Clinical Neuroscience Research Center at Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana and Department of Neurosurgery and Ochsner Neuroscience Institute Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA. He has multiple honorary professorships/faculty positions both in the US and abroad. Dr. Tubbs is President-elect of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists (AACA) and serves as its Journal's (Clinical Anatomy) Editor-in-Chief. Dr. Tubbs' research interests are centered around what has been termed "reverse translational anatomy research� where clinical/surgical problems are identified and solved/explained with anatomical studies. This investigative paradigm in anatomy has resulted in over 1,800 peer reviewed publications from his laboratory. Dr. Tubbs' laboratory has made novel discoveries in human anatomy and in 2018, he was listed as a "hyperprolific author� in the journal Nature. Dr. Tubbs sits on the editorial board of over 10 anatomical journals and over 30 clinical journals and has reviewed for over 150 various scientific journals. He has authored/edited over 50 books and over 80 book chapters primarily in anatomical and neurosurgical textbooks. Lastly, Dr. Tubbs is Chair of the Federative International Programme on Anatomical Terminologies (FIPAT) and oversees six working groups dedicated to this topic. Under his leadership, the second edition of Terminologia Anatomica was just published. Marios Loukas Chair and Professor of Anatomy, St George's University, Grenada, W.I. Malcon Martinez-Pereira Claudia Cejas C. J. Bui Miguel Angel Reina Joe Iwanaga Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurology at Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Associate Professor of Anatomy and Dental and Oral Medical Center at Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan.. Joe Iwanaga, DDS, PhD, is a clinical anatomist and an oral and maxillofacial surgeon. He is the author of more than 400 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Iwanaga is a Councilor-at-Large of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists, and Coordinator of the FIPAT Oral Anatomy Working Group of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists. He is a Dental, Oral and Maxillofacial Section editor of the journal Clinical Anatomy.