Anatomy study note · Head and neck
Superficial and regional cervical lymph nodes
The pericervical collar (occipital, mastoid, parotid, buccal, submandibular, submental nodes) around the junction of head and neck, and the regional cervical nodes (anterior and superficial cervical, retropharyngeal, laryngeal, tracheal), all draining to the deep cervical nodes.
Key points
- Pericervical collar: occipital, mastoid, parotid, buccal, submandibular, submental.
- Submental: tongue tip, lower incisors, central lower lip.
- Submandibular: most of the face, teeth and anterior tongue.
- All drain finally to the deep cervical nodes.
- Lymph sacs → lymph nodes (except cisterna chyli).
- Node: cortex (B-cell nodules) / paracortex (T cells, HEVs) / medulla.
- Afferent in at the convex side, efferent out at the hilum.
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Written from
- Snell’s Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 10th ed., ch. 12, PDF pp. 1655–1658
- Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 15, PDF pp. 275–276
- BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 12, PDF pp. 223–224
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