12 - Autonomics of the Head and Neck Flashcards

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What are some responses in the head of the neck that are due to parasympathetics and sympathetics?

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Where in the spinal cord do the parasympathetics and sympathetics arise from?

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Fill in the following table relating to the sympathetic innervation of the head and neck.

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- Sympathetic plexus on ECA is sweat glands, rest is ICA, especially following the opthalmic artery

  • Top 3 ganglia in the sympathetic chain are cervical ganglion
  • If synapsing at T1-L2 the sympathetics hitchhike on spinal nerves not blood vessels
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What is Horner’s syndrome and what does it indicate?

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Pathology in the lung apex or common carotid artery as there is unopposed parasympathetics due to a pathology impinging on the sympathetics

e.g Pancoast’s tumour, CCA aneurysm or dissection

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When would you a partial ptosis and when would you have a full ptosis?

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Partial: loss of sympathetic innervation to superior tarsal muscle

Full: CNIII lesion so loss of skeletal part of levator palpebrae superioris

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Which cranial nerves carry parasympathetics from the brainstem?

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III, VII, IX and X

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At what spinal levels are the cervical ganglion?

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How do parasympathetics get from their origin in the brain stem to their target tissues?

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Run with cranial nerves not blood vessels like the sympathetics

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What are the names of the following in the parasympathetic system of the head and neck:

  • Nuclei
  • Cranial nerves
  • Autonomic ganglion
  • Target tissues
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How do the parasympathetics that hitchhike with CN III reach their target tissue?

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- Ciliary is the ganglion associate with oculomotor nerve

  • Remember parasympathetics lay on outside of nerve so they are affect first in raised ICP
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Describe the pupillary light reflex and why if you shine light into one eye, both pupils constrict in response.

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How do the parasympathetics that hitchhike with CN VII reach their target tissue?

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  • Hitchhike with greater petrosal and chorda tympani nerve

- Pterygopalatine and Submandibular ganglion

  • Post ganglionics run with trigeminal lingual nerve
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How would you figure out where a lesion in the facial nerve is?

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  • Ask about dry eyes, dry mouth, facial expression
  • If parasympathetics spared then must be after it has left stylomastoid foramen
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How do the parasympathetics that hitchhike with CN IX reach their target tissue?

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  • Jugular foramen along the tympanic nerve which is sensory to the middle ear
  • Then parasympathetics join lesser petrosal nerve and go to otic ganglion in infratemporal fossa
  • Hitchhikes onto auricotemporal Vc after ganglion to parotid gland
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How do the parasympathetics that hitchhike with CN X reach their target tissue?

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What target tissue are associated with the four named parasympathetic ganglia?

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17
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What do the middle and superior cervical ganglia go on to innervate?

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  • Hyperthyroidism
  • Raised thyroid increases the sensitivity of sympathetics so overstimulation of sympathetics has lead to increased activity of the superior tarsal muscle
  • Exophthalmus only associated with Grave’s
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What has happened to the ventricles and why are the patient’s pupils dilated?

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  • There has been midline shift due to increased ICP
  • Increased ICP is pushing on parasympathetics sitting on periphery of oculomotor nerve damaging it
  • Need to do a craniotomy