Pectoral region and axilla
Left subscapular muscle (continued)
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Pectoral region and axilla
Left subscapular muscle (continued)
The shoulder has been detached from the thorax and turned so that the subscapular muscle is visible. The axillary artery and brachial plexus have been retracted from the field except for the median and musculocutaneous nerves.
- Levator muscle of scapula (cut across)
- Rhomboid minor muscle (cut across)
- Descending branch superficial transverse artery
- Rhomboid major muscle (cut across)
- Serratus anterior muscle (middle part, cut across)
- Subscapularis muscle
- Serratus anterior muscle (lower part, cut across)
- Teres major muscle
- Latissimus dorsi muscle (cut across)
- Serratus anterior muscle (upper part, cut across)
- Superior margin of scapula
- Omohyoid muscle (cut across)
- Suprascapular nerve (cut across)
- Transverse scapular artery (cut across)
- Superior transverse ligament of scapula
- Clavicle
- Coracoid process of scapula
- Branches of subscapular nerve
- Musculocutaneus nerve
- Branches of subscapular nerve
- Thoracodorsal nerve
- Quadrangular space
- Posterior circumflex artery of humerus
- Subscapular artery (cut off)
- Circumflex artery of scapula (entering triangular space)
- Thoracodorsal artery
- Median nerve