Mylohyoid Muscle: Current Understanding for Clinical Management-Part I: Anatomy and Embryology

Kyoichi Obata; Norio Kitagawa; Kisho Ono; Hideka Kanemoto; Keiko Fukino; Yohei Takeshita; Soichiro Ibaragi; Richard S Tubbs; Joe Iwanaga

doi:10.1097/SCS.0000000000009812

Mylohyoid Muscle: Current Understanding for Clinical Management-Part I: Anatomy and Embryology

J Craniofac Surg. 2024 Jan-Feb;35(1):251-255. doi: 10.1097/SCS.0000000000009812. Epub 2023 Nov 10.

Authors

Kyoichi Obata¹, Norio Kitagawa², Kisho Ono¹, Hideka Kanemoto¹, Keiko Fukino², Yohei Takeshita³, Soichiro Ibaragi¹, Richard S Tubbs^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama.
² Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Anatomy, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo.
³ Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.
⁴ Departments of Neurosurgery.
⁵ Neurology, Tulane Center for Clinical Neurosciences.
⁶ Department of Structural and Cellular Biology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA.
⁷ Department of Anatomical Sciences, St. George's University, St. George's, Grenada.
⁸ Department of Surgery, Tulane University School of Medicine.
⁹ Department of Neurosurgery and Ochsner Neuroscience Institute, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA.
¹⁰ University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

PMID: 37948619
DOI: 10.1097/SCS.0000000000009812

Abstract

The mylohyoid is one of the suprahyoid muscles, along with the geniohyoid, digastric, and stylohyoid muscles. It lies between the anterior belly of the digastric muscle inferiorly and the geniohyoid superiorly. In Part I, the anatomy and embryology of the mylohyoid muscle will be reviewed in preparation for the clinical discussion in Part II.

MeSH terms

Humans
Neck Muscles* / anatomy & histology
Neck Muscles* / embryology