Unit 1 - Back and Thorax, G01: Back
GROSS ANATOMY - ANAT 6010
๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿซ Dr. Weyrich ๐Ÿ“… University of Utah School of Medicine ๐Ÿ“„ 4ํŽ˜์ด์ง€
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1 1) Skin of the Back
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2 2) Back Muscles - Superficial Layer
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3 3) Deep Back Muscles
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4 4) Suboccipital Region
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5 Exercises
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1) Skin of the Back
Anatomical Landmarks
Students should be able to identify basic anatomical landmarks of the back including external occipital protuberance, C7 vertebra, angles of the scapula, medial margin of the scapula, spine of the scapula, iliac crest, and boundaries of the trapezius, latissimus dorsi, and erector spinae muscles.
Surface anatomy of the back
Posterior view of back showing surface anatomy with labeled landmarks
Dermatome map
Dermatome map showing segmental distribution from C2 to S5, Co
๐Ÿ’ก ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ฐœ๋…
  • Identify basic anatomical landmarks of the back
  • External occipital protuberance
  • C7 vertebra
  • Angles of the scapula
  • Medial margin of the scapula
  • Spine of the scapula
  • Iliac crest
  • Boundaries of trapezius, latissimus dorsi, and erector spinae muscles
Vertebral Levels of Bony Landmarks
Identify the vertebral level of the following bony landmarks: Root of the spine of the scapula at T3, Inferior angle of the scapula at T7, and Iliac crest at L5.
๐Ÿ’ก ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ฐœ๋…
  • Root of the Spine of the scapula - T3
  • Inferior angle of the scapula - T7
  • Iliac crest - L5
Segmental Cutaneous Innervation and Vascular Supply
Understand the segmental cutaneous innervation (dorsal rami) and vascular supply (posterior intercostal branches) to the back.
๐Ÿ’ก ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ฐœ๋…
  • Segmental cutaneous innervation via dorsal rami
  • Vascular supply via posterior intercostal branches
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2) Back Muscles - Superficial Layer
Superficial Back Muscles Overview
Identify and describe specific attachments, actions, innervation, vascularization, and relations of superficial back muscles including Trapezius, Latissimus dorsi, Levator scapulae, Rhomboid major, and Rhomboid minor.
Superficial back muscles
Posterior view of superficial back muscles showing trapezius, latissimus dorsi, and other superficial muscles
๐Ÿ’ก ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ฐœ๋…
  • Study specific attachments, actions, innervation, and vascularization
  • Focus on superficial back muscles (See table)
Trapezius Muscle - Detailed Innervation
Motor innervation via Spinal accessory nerve (CN XI) which arises from upper segments of the spinal cord, ascends through the foramen magnum to enter the cranial cavity, then exits through the jugular foramen, descends through the posterior triangle of the neck to the sternocleidomastoid and trapezius. Accessory nerve syndromes can occur as it crosses the posterior triangle of the neck resulting in a medial winged scapula, droopy shoulder, or the inability to raise shoulder or arm above the head. Sensory innervation through C3 and C4 spinal nerves for proprioception.
๐Ÿ’ก ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ฐœ๋…
  • Motor: Spinal accessory nerve (CN XI)
  • Sensory: Proprioception through C3 and C4 spinal nerves
  • Accessory nerve syndromes: medial winged scapula, droopy shoulder, inability to raise shoulder/arm above head
Table of Superficial Back Muscles
Comprehensive table showing muscle characteristics of superficial back muscles.
๐Ÿ“Š Table of Superficial Back Muscles
Muscle Proximal Attachment Distal Attachment Action Innervation Vascularization
Trapezius Occipital bone, nuchal ligament, C7-T12 vertebrae Clavicle, acromion and spine of scapula Elevates, retracts, depresses, and rotates scapula Spinal root of accessory n. (CN XI) cervical nn (C3-C4) Superficial branch of the transverse cervical artery
Latissimus dorsi T7 sacrum, thoracolumbar fascia, iliac crest and inferior 3 ribs Intertubercular groove of humerus Extends, adducts, and medially rotates humerus Thoracodorsal n. (C6-C8) Thoracodorsal artery
Levator scapulae Transverse processes of C1-C4 vertebrae Superior angle of the scapula Elevates and rotates the scapula; inclines the neck to the same side of contraction Cervical nn. (C3-C4) and dorsal scapular n. (C5) Transverse cervical artery, Transverse cervical artery
Rhomboid major Spinous processes of T2-T5 vertebrae Medial margin of scapula Retract and rotate scapula Dorsal scapular n. (C4-C5)
Rhomboid minor Spinous processes of C7-T1
๐Ÿ’ก ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ฐœ๋…
  • Memorize attachments, actions, innervation, and vascularization
  • Pay special attention to clinical correlations
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3) Deep Back Muscles
Deep Back Muscles Anatomy
Identify and describe general attachments, actions, segmental innervation, and relations of the deep back muscles including splenius capitis and cervicis, erector spinae, and transversospinalis muscles.
Deep back muscles
Posterior view showing deep back muscles with superficial layers removed
Erector spinae muscles
Posterior view showing erector spinae and transversospinalis muscle groups
๐Ÿ’ก ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ฐœ๋…
  • Splenius capitis and cervicis
  • Erector spinae muscles
  • Transversospinalis muscles
  • General attachments, actions, and segmental innervation
  • See table for detailed information
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4) Suboccipital Region
Suboccipital Triangle - Boundaries and Contents
Identify and describe the boundaries and contents of the suboccipital triangle. Boundaries include rectus capitis posterior major, obliquus capitis superior, and obliquus capitis inferior muscles. Contents include suboccipital nerve (posterior ramus of C1) and vertebral artery.
Suboccipital region
Detailed anatomical diagram of suboccipital region showing suboccipital triangle, nerves, and arteries
๐Ÿ’ก ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ฐœ๋…
  • Boundaries: rectus capitis posterior major, obliquus capitis superior, obliquus capitis inferior muscles
  • Contents: suboccipital nerve (posterior ramus of C1) and vertebral artery
Suboccipital Muscles
Identify and describe the general attachments, functions, innervation, and vascularization of the suboccipital muscles: rectus capitis posterior major, rectus capitis posterior minor, obliquus capitis superior, and obliquus capitis inferior.
๐Ÿ’ก ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ฐœ๋…
  • Rectus capitis posterior major
  • Rectus capitis posterior minor
  • Obliquus capitis superior
  • Obliquus capitis inferior
  • See table for detailed attachments, functions, innervation, and vascularization
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Exercises
๐ŸŽฏ ์—ฐ์Šต๋ฌธ์ œ
1. Identify and locate all basic anatomical landmarks of the back on cadaver
์ฃผ์š” ํ•ด๋ถ€ํ•™์  ๋žœ๋“œ๋งˆํฌ:

1. External occipital protuberance - ํ›„๋‘๊ณจ ๋’ค์ชฝ ๋Œ์ถœ๋ถ€
2. C7 vertebra (vertebra prominens) - ๋ชฉ์„ ๊ตฝํ˜”์„ ๋•Œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํŠ€์–ด๋‚˜์˜จ ์ฒ™์ถ”
3. Spine of scapula - ๊ฒฌ๊ฐ‘๊ณจ์˜ ๊ทน
4. Medial margin of scapula - ๊ฒฌ๊ฐ‘๊ณจ ๋‚ด์ธก์—ฐ
5. Inferior angle of scapula - ๊ฒฌ๊ฐ‘๊ณจ ํ•˜๊ฐ
6. Iliac crest - ์žฅ๊ณจ๋Šฅ
๐ŸŽฏ ์—ฐ์Šต๋ฌธ์ œ
2. Determine vertebral levels of bony landmarks: T3, T7, L5
์ฒ™์ถ” ๋ ˆ๋ฒจ๊ณผ ํ•ด๋ถ€ํ•™์  ๋žœ๋“œ๋งˆํฌ:

- T3: Root of the spine of scapula (๊ฒฌ๊ฐ‘๊ณจ ๊ทน์˜ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ)
- T7: Inferior angle of scapula (๊ฒฌ๊ฐ‘๊ณจ ํ•˜๊ฐ)
- L5: Iliac crest (์žฅ๊ณจ๋Šฅ)

์ž„์ƒ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์š”์ถ”์ฒœ์ž(lumbar puncture) ์œ„์น˜ ํ™•์ธ์— ์‚ฌ์šฉ
๐ŸŽฏ ์—ฐ์Šต๋ฌธ์ œ
3. Trace the pathway of the spinal accessory nerve (CN XI)
Spinal Accessory Nerve (CN XI) ๊ฒฝ๋กœ:

1. ์ฒ™์ˆ˜ ์ƒ๋ถ€ ๋ถ„์ ˆ์—์„œ ๊ธฐ์›
2. Foramen magnum์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋‘๊ฐœ๊ฐ•์œผ๋กœ ์ƒํ–‰
3. Jugular foramen์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋‘๊ฐœ๊ฐ• ํƒˆ์ถœ
4. ๊ฒฝ๋ถ€ ํ›„์‚ผ๊ฐ(posterior triangle)์„ ํ•˜ํ–‰
5. Sternocleidomastoid์™€ Trapezius ์ง€๋ฐฐ

์šด๋™๊ธฐ๋Šฅ: ์–ด๊นจ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ, ๋จธ๋ฆฌ ํšŒ์ „
๐ŸŽฏ ์—ฐ์Šต๋ฌธ์ œ
4. Identify all superficial back muscles and their attachments
ํ‘œ์žฌ์„ฑ ๋“ฑ ๊ทผ์œก:

1. Trapezius
- ๊ธฐ์‹œ: ํ›„๋‘๊ณจ, ํ•ญ์ธ๋Œ€, C7-T12
- ์ •์ง€: ์‡„๊ณจ, ๊ฒฌ๋ด‰, ๊ฒฌ๊ฐ‘๊ทน

2. Latissimus dorsi
- ๊ธฐ์‹œ: T7-์ฒœ๊ณจ, ์žฅ๊ณจ๋Šฅ, ํ•˜์œ„ 3๋Š‘๊ณจ
- ์ •์ง€: ์ƒ์™„๊ณจ ๊ฒฐ์ ˆ๊ฐ„๊ตฌ

3. Levator scapulae
- ๊ธฐ์‹œ: C1-C4 ํšก๋Œ๊ธฐ
- ์ •์ง€: ๊ฒฌ๊ฐ‘๊ณจ ์ƒ๊ฐ

4. Rhomboid major/minor
- ๊ธฐ์‹œ: T2-T5/C7-T1 ๊ทน๋Œ๊ธฐ
- ์ •์ง€: ๊ฒฌ๊ฐ‘๊ณจ ๋‚ด์ธก์—ฐ
๐ŸŽฏ ์—ฐ์Šต๋ฌธ์ œ
5. Demonstrate actions of trapezius, latissimus dorsi, and levator scapulae
Trapezius ์ž‘์šฉ:
- ์ƒ๋ถ€์„ฌ์œ : ๊ฒฌ๊ฐ‘๊ณจ ๊ฑฐ์ƒ
- ์ค‘๋ถ€์„ฌ์œ : ๊ฒฌ๊ฐ‘๊ณจ ํ›„์ธ
- ํ•˜๋ถ€์„ฌ์œ : ๊ฒฌ๊ฐ‘๊ณจ ํ•˜๊ฐ•
- ์ƒ๋ฐฉํšŒ์ „

Latissimus dorsi ์ž‘์šฉ:
- ์ƒ์™„๊ณจ ์‹ ์ „, ๋‚ด์ „, ๋‚ดํšŒ์ „
- '์ˆ˜์˜ ๊ทผ์œก'

Levator scapulae ์ž‘์šฉ:
- ๊ฒฌ๊ฐ‘๊ณจ ๊ฑฐ์ƒ
- ๋™์ธก์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ๋ถ€ ์ธก๊ตด
๐ŸŽฏ ์—ฐ์Šต๋ฌธ์ œ
6. Identify boundaries and contents of suboccipital triangle
ํ›„๋‘ํ•˜์‚ผ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„:

- ์ƒ๋‚ด์ธก: Rectus capitis posterior major
- ์ƒ์™ธ์ธก: Obliquus capitis superior
- ํ•˜์™ธ์ธก: Obliquus capitis inferior

๋‚ด์šฉ๋ฌผ:
1. Suboccipital nerve (C1 ํ›„์ง€) - ํ›„๋‘ํ•˜๊ทผ ์šด๋™์ง€๋ฐฐ
2. Vertebral artery - ๋‡Œ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ํ˜ˆ์•ก ๊ณต๊ธ‰
๐ŸŽฏ ์—ฐ์Šต๋ฌธ์ œ
7. Locate suboccipital nerve and vertebral artery in suboccipital region
Suboccipital nerve (C1 posterior ramus):
- ํ›„๋‘ํ•˜์‚ผ๊ฐ ๋‚ด์— ์œ„์น˜
- ์ˆœ์ˆ˜ ์šด๋™์‹ ๊ฒฝ
- ํ›„๋‘ํ•˜๊ทผ 4๊ฐœ ์ง€๋ฐฐ

Vertebral artery:
- C6 ํšก๋Œ๊ธฐ ๊ตฌ๋ฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ง„์ž…
- C1-C2 ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ํ›„๋ฐฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๊ณก
- ํ›„๋‘ํ•˜์‚ผ๊ฐ ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ์„ ์ง€๋‚จ
- Foramen magnum์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋‘๊ฐœ๊ฐ• ์ง„์ž…
- ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์ธก๊ณผ ํ•ฉ์ณ์ ธ basilar artery ํ˜•์„ฑ
๐ŸŽฏ ์—ฐ์Šต๋ฌธ์ œ
8. Understand clinical significance of accessory nerve syndromes
Accessory Nerve Syndrome ์ž„์ƒ์  ์˜์˜:

์†์ƒ ์›์ธ:
- ๊ฒฝ๋ถ€ ํ›„์‚ผ๊ฐ ์ˆ˜์ˆ 
- ๋ฆผํ”„์ ˆ ์ƒ๊ฒ€
- ์™ธ์ƒ

์ฆ์ƒ:
1. Medial winged scapula - ๊ฒฌ๊ฐ‘๊ณจ ๋‚ด์ธก์ต์ƒ
2. Droopy shoulder - ์–ด๊นจ ์ฒ˜์ง
3. ํŒ”/์–ด๊นจ๋ฅผ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ ์œ„๋กœ ๋“ค๊ธฐ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€
4. ์–ด๊นจ ์™ธ์ „ ์žฅ์• 

๊ฐ๋ณ„: Long thoracic nerve ์†์ƒ ์‹œ lateral winging ๋ฐœ์ƒ