A 50-year-old woman arrived with progressive neck pain and stiffness, 3 years after a whiplash injury sustained in a motor vehicle crash. Previous diagnoses included cervical spondylosis and muscle ...

- one of two thick muscles running from the sternum and clavicle to the mastoid and occipital bone; turns head obliquely to the opposite side; when acting together they flex the neck and extend the ...

Torticollis refers to a condition in which the sternocleidomastoid muscle is shorter (and sometimes tighter) on one side of the neck, causing the head to tilt toward the shortened muscle, while at the ...

Congenital lesions account for more than half of excised cervical masses in children; 20% of them are branchial cleft anomalies, including cysts, sinuses and fistulas.1 Second branchial cleft lesions ...