Fasel J, Gailloud P, Terrier F
Department of Anatomy, University School of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
Surg Radiol Anat. 1994;16(3):303-5. doi: 10.1007/BF01627686.
During routine radiological examination of a 72 year-old woman a soft-tissue shadow in the left posterior triangle of the neck was observed. Three-dimensional reconstruction of this structure suggested that it might be a muscular variant: a levator claviculae muscle. In our case it took origin from the upper part of the cervical column and was inserted into the lateral third of the clavicle. With this example as a background, the general significance of anatomical muscular variants for modern imaging techniques is discussed.
在对一名72岁女性进行常规放射学检查时，发现颈部左后三角区有一个软组织阴影。对该结构进行三维重建后表明，它可能是一种肌肉变异：锁骨提肌。在我们的病例中，它起自颈椎柱上部，止于锁骨外侧三分之一处。以这个例子为背景，讨论了解剖学肌肉变异对现代成像技术的普遍意义。
