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The Greater Occipital Nerve and Obliquus Capitis Inferior Muscle: Anatomical Interactions and Implications for Occipital Pain Syndromes by Saja S. Scherer; Luigi Schiraldi; Gianluca Sapino; Janos Cambiaso-Daniel; Alessandro Gualdi; Ziv M. Peled; Robert Hagan; Giorgio Pietramaggiori is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background: The compression/injury of the greater occipital nerve has been identified as a trigger of occipital headaches. Several compression points have been described, but the morphology of the myofascial unit between the greater occipital nerve and the obliquus capitis inferior muscle has not been studied yet. ## Methods: Twenty fresh cadaveric heads were dissected, and the greater occipital nerve was tracked from its emergence to its passage around the obliquus capitis inferior. The intersection point between the greater occipital nerve and the obliquus capitis inferior, and the length and thickness of the obliquus capitis inferior, were measured. In addition, the nature of the interaction and whether the nerve passed through the muscle were also noted. ## Results: All nerves passed either around the muscle loosely (type I), incorporated in the dense superficial muscle fascia (type II), or directly through a myofascial sleeve within the muscle (type III). The obliquus capitis inferior length was 5.60 ± 0.46 cm. The intersection point between the obliquus capitis inferior and the greater occipital nerve was 6.80 ± 0.68 cm caudal to the occiput and 3.56 ± 0.36 cm lateral to t
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- Author
- Saja S. Scherer; Luigi Schiraldi; Gianluca Sapino; Janos Cambiaso-Daniel; Alessandro Gualdi; Ziv M. Peled; Robert Hagan; Giorgio Pietramaggiori
- Publisher
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)