Voorbeelden van sternoclavicular

• In our study, sternoclavicular arthritis was documented in two cases only.

• A less common site of infection is the sternoclavicular joint.

• The first functions as the human sternoclavicular joint, the second functions as the human glenohumeral joint, and the last replicates the human humeroulnar rotation.

• In humans, the only true anatomical joints between the shoulder girdle and axial skeleton are the sternoclavicular joints on each side.

• In 1927, he first described the unilateral enlargement of the sternoclavicular portion of the clavicle, seen in congenital syphilis.

• Medially, it articulates with the manubrium of the sternum (breast-bone) at the sternoclavicular joint.

• This is at the level of the sternoclavicular joint.

• A sternoclavicular separation occurs when the sternum separates from the clavicle at the sternoclavicular joint.

• Each vessel passes obliquely upward, from behind the sternoclavicular joint to the level of the upper border of the thyroid cartilage, where it divides.

• Despite the scapula pulling on the clavicle during impact, the clavicle remains in its general fixed position because of the sternoclavicular joint ligaments.

• Sternoclavicular separations (dislocation and subluxation) are rare and generally caused by accident.

• Sternoclavicular dislocation is rare, but may result from direct trauma to the clavicle or indirect forces applied to the shoulder.

• It originates along the aortic arch, and travels upward through the superior mediastinum to the level of the left sternoclavicular joint, where it is continuous with the cervical portion.

• The medial end connects with the manubrium of the sternum and gives attachments to the fibrous capsule of the sternoclavicular joint, articular disc, and interclavicular ligament.

• On the right side the subclavian artery arises from the brachiocephalic (innominate) artery behind the right sternoclavicular articulation; on the left side it springs from the arch of the aorta.