Table Of ContentAnato my fo r Plastic Surg e ry o f the   
Face, He ad, and Ne ck
Koich i Watan abe, MD, Ph D 
Assistant Professor
Departm ent of Anatomy
Kurum e University School of Medicine
Fukuoka-Prefecture, Japan
Moh am m adali M. Sh oja, MD
Research Scientist
Section of Pediatric Neurosurgery
Children’s Hospital
Birm ingham , Alabam a, USA
Marios Lou kas, MD, Ph D
Dean of Basic Sciences
Professor and Chair
Departm ent of Anatom ical Sciences
St. George’s University
Grenada, West Indies
R. Sh an e Tubbs, MS, PA-C, Ph D
Professor and Chief Scienti  c O  cer
Seattle Science Foundation
Seattle, Washington, USA
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List of Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ix
Contributors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xi
  1  Neurocranium and Facial Skeleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
David Kahn, Toomas Arusoo, and Eric J. Wright 
  2  Anterior Skull Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Surjith Vattoth and Philip R. Chapman 
  3  Middle Skull Base  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Philip R. Chapman and Surjith Vattoth
  4  Soft Tissue of the Scalp and Temporal Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Noriyuki Koga
  5  Arterial Supply of the Facial Skin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Nobuaki Imanishi
  6  Arteries of the Face and Neck  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Yelda Atamaz Pinar, Figen Govsa, and Servet Celik 
  7  Veins of the Face and Neck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Yusuke Shimizu
  8  Facial Nerve and Temporal Bone  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Orlando Guntinas-Lichius
  9  Peripheral Branches of the Facial Nerve  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Andrew P. Trussler
10  Sensory Nerves of the Head and Neck  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Ibrahim Khansa, Jenny C. Barker, and Jef rey E. Janis
11  Super  cial Musculoaponeurotic System and the Facial Soft Tissues  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Yoko Tabira, Joe Iwanaga, Tsuyoshi Saga, and Koichi Watanabe
12  Mimetic Muscles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Hee-Jin Kim
13  Orbital Anatomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Swapna Vemuri and Jeremiah P. Tao
14  Orbital Soft Tissues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Swapna Vemuri and Jeremiah P. Tao 
15  Eyelid Anatomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Catherine Y. Liu, Swapna Vemuri, and Jeremiah P. Tao
16  Nasal Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Joe Iwanaga, Tsuyoshi Saga, and Koichi Watanabe
17  External Nose  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Hideaki Rikimaru
18  Auricle and External Acoustic Meatus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Noritaka Komune, Junichi Fukushima, and Albert L. Rhoton, Jr.
19  Mandible and Masticatory Muscles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Kyung-Seok Hu and Yang Hun Mu
Contents
20  Oral Cavity and Pharynx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Joe Iwanaga, Shinya Mikushi, and Haruka Tohara
21  Neck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Sherine S. Raveendran and Lucian Ion
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
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List o f Vide o s
Video 1.  Facial muscles and facial nerve on the anterior face 
  Lower face
  Middle face
Video 2.  Dissection of the external nose
  Muscles on the external nose
  Bony and cartilaginous structure
Video 3.  Main trunk of the facial nerve and its branches 
  Landmarks of the facial nerve trunk
  Temporal branch
  Zygomatic branch
  Buccal branch
  Marginal mandibular branch
  Cervical branch
Video 4.  Sensory nerves of the face
  Supraorbital nerve
  Infraorbital nerve
  Zygomaticofacial nerve
  Mental nerve
Video 5.  Layers of the temporal region
  Super  cial temporal fascia
  Deep temporal fascia
  Temporalis muscle
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Pre face
This book was planned as a head and neck surgical anatomy  dents have less time to study anatomy, given the many new   elds 
book for  plastic surgeons, head and  neck  surgeons,  and  sur- of medicine that they are expected to be familiar with. Appar-
geons who practice in related   elds. Unfortunately, few surgical  ently, some medical schools no longer o  er anatomical dissec-
textbooks emphasize anatomy, especially textbooks in the   eld  tion. Thus, not surprisingly, the number of anatomists, especially 
of plastic surgery. In most surgical textbooks, the procedures  gross anatomists, is decreasing. This tendency has critical, neg-
are described only in minute detail. Conversely, traditional an- ative implications for surgery. Gross anatomy is the basis of 
atomical textbooks do not provide adequate information on  knowledge for every surgeon. Surgeons must be experts in gross 
the regional anatomy, preventing surgeons from obtaining the  anatomy if they hope to acquire the surgical skills to become 
knowledge necessary to expertly perform various surgical pro- experts in surgery.
cedures. One reason for this is that although the basic anatomy  My second mentor, a specialist in plastic surgery, o  ered the 
of the human body was almost completely described more than  following: The most important aspect of performing plastic sur-
100 years ago, the anatomy in the head and neck region, espe- gery is knowledge of three-dimensional regional anatomy. For 
cially that applicable to plastic surgery, is still developing. Addi- example, each nerve and blood vessel takes up space three di-
tionally, anatomical textbooks often do not provide the most  mensionally. It is important to recognize how these structures 
up-to-date  information.  Therefore,  we  have  attempted  to  in- travel on the surface plane, but it is more important for the 
clude the latest anatomical understanding of the head and neck  success of the actual surgery to know which tissue layers these 
anatomy from a plastic surgeon’s perspective.  structures run through. Anatomical atlases and textbooks pro-
In writing this preface, I (KW) discussed head and neck anat- vide detailed images of these structures, but the knowledge 
omy with my mentors in two specialties: gross anatomy and  gained from them is two-dimensional. Novice surgeons typi-
plastic surgery. This allowed me to consider anatomy from two  cally  memorize  the  two-dimensional  image  of  their  surgical 
di  erent viewpoints.   eld. Because of this, surgical results are sometimes unsatisfac-
First, my mentor in gross anatomy made the following ob- tory, or unexpected surgical complications may occur. To per-
servations: The anatomy of the head and neck is extremely  form surgeries with a high degree of di  culty, a surgeon has to 
complicated and the details di  er among individuals and during  be able to vividly visualize the three-dimensional regional anat-
di  erent stages of life. These di  erences include the thickness  omy of the surgical   eld. Plastic surgery residents have to study 
of the tissues, their changes in response to aging, and even ana- the regional anatomy in anatomical atlases and textbooks, and 
tomical variations in vessels, nerves, and muscles. Each organ in  con  rm their anatomical knowledge in practical operations. 
the head and neck region has a very distinct function. Conse- By repeating this pattern many times, a resident is able to es-
quently,  pathologies  involving  the  head  that  require  surgery  tablish and practice three-dimensional anatomical knowledge. 
will be operated on by surgeons specializing in neurosurgery,  By having surgical training based on accurate anatomical knowl-
otorhinopharyngolaryngology, ophthalmology, dental medicine,  edge, a surgeon will be better equipped to perform high-degree 
and plastic surgery. While in-depth knowledge in the anatomi- operations.
cal area of specialization is extremely important in treating pa- We hope that our textbook will not only help to improve the 
tients, the surgeon as well as the medical sta   must also be  surgical skill of individual surgeons, but will also promote the 
highly familiar with not just related regions of the body but also  development of head and neck surgery. I would like to thank 
with unrelated regions. In medical education, unfortunately, the  Dr. Koh-ichi Yamaki, Professor of Anatomy, and Dr. Kensuke 
importance of anatomical education has been downplayed glob- Kiyokawa, Professor of Plastic Surgery, for kindly contributing 
ally in recent years. This may be because nowadays medical stu- the above comments to the preface.
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