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International Journal of Anatomical Variations

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Cleido-occipital platysma muscle: a rare variant of sternocleidomastoid muscle

Author(s): Madhan Kumar SJ, Shanmuga Sundaram M, Aleyamma Fenn, Soubhagya R Nayak* and Ashwin Krishnamurthy

Additional and abnormal muscles are not an uncommon in the head and neck region. A supernumerary muscle bundle from the cleido-mastoid part of sternocleidomastoid muscle was encountered during routine dissection of the head and neck region of a 60-year-old female cadaver. The supernumerary muscle bundle was merging with the fibers of platysma muscle. The description of such a muscle in the modern literature is vague and we named the abnormal muscle bundle as cleido-occipital platysma muscle. The clinical and embryological significance of the variation is discussed


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