"Neck Muscles" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The neck muscles consist of the platysma, splenius cervicis, sternocleidomastoid(eus), longus colli, the anterior, medius, and posterior scalenes, digastric(us), stylohyoid(eus), mylohyoid(eus), geniohyoid(eus), sternohyoid(eus), omohyoid(eus), sternothyroid(eus), and thyrohyoid(eus).
| Descriptor ID |
D009334
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A02.633.567.650
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| Concept/Terms |
Neck Muscles- Neck Muscles
- Muscle, Neck
- Muscles, Neck
- Neck Muscle
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Neck Muscles" by people in Profiles.
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Preoperative paraspinal neck muscle characteristics predict early onset adjacent segment degeneration in anterior cervical fusion patients: A machine-learning modeling analysis. J Orthop Res. 2021 08; 39(8):1732-1744.
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Characterization of Neck Strength in Healthy Young Adults. PM R. 2017 Sep; 9(9):884-891.
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Late appearance of dropped head syndrome after radiotherapy for Hodgkin's disease. Muscle Nerve. 2006 Nov; 34(5):666-9.
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Comparison of botulinum toxin serotypes A and B for the treatment of cervical dystonia. Neurology. 2005 Nov 08; 65(9):1423-9.
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Use of botulinum toxin type A in the treatment of cervical dystonia. Neurology. 2000; 55(12 Suppl 5):S15-21.
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Post-traumatic shoulder 'dystonia': persistent abnormal postures of the shoulder after minor trauma. Neurology. 1998 Oct; 51(4):1205-7.
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The effect of changes in head posture on the patterns of muscle activity in cervical dystonia (CD). Mov Disord. 1998 May; 13(3):490-6.
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Dropped head syndrome. Neurology. 1993 Apr; 43(4):846; author reply 846-7.
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Efficacy of cervical cord stimulation in dystonia. Adv Neurol. 1988; 50:645-9.