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The sternocleidomastoid muscle shows a wide range of variations including supernumerary muscular heads. We found a rare variation in the sternocleidomastoid muscle with bilateral supernumerary heads in a 67-year-old Korean male cadaver. Bilateral four muscle bellies were recorded: two sternomastoids, one cleido-occipital and one cleido-mastoid occipital on the right side, and one sternomastoid, one cleido-occipital and two cleido-mastoids on the left side. The variation of bilateral four heads on sternocleidomastoid muscle is important to surgeons and anesthetists for clinical using.
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Kim, SY., Jang, HB., Kim, J. et al. Bilateral four heads of the sternocleidomastoid muscle. Surg Radiol Anat 37, 871–873 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00276-014-1397-0
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