ILOs
- Palpate the living neck and identify its surface landmarks
- Identify a goitre and understand its position and why it usually moves on swallowing
- Describe the macroscopic structure of the thyroid and parathyroid glands
- Recognize an obvious pathological lesion
- Describe the relationship between the hypothalamus and posterior pituitary
- Appreciate the usual anatomical position of the pituitary and the risk to surrounding structures of pituitary enlargement
Overview
- What bones do you find when you examine the neck (both in submandibular region & the lower aspect of the neck)?
- What are you examining / palpating for?
Submandibular Region
- Where are the Submental Lymph Nodes located?
- Where are the SubMandibular Lymph Nodes located?
- Why are they clinically relevant?
- What is the Submandibular Salivary Gland?
- What do we palpate for here?
- Where is the Mylohyoid?
- Which way do its fibres run?
- Where is the Digastric?