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Point of care ultrasound (POCUS), when performed by an experienced clinician, may be used for many applications in the neck. The focus of this chapter is on selected aspects of the neck. including discussion on anatomy, evaluation of lymph nodes, utility to identify infections and the use of ultrasound for vascular access. The properly trained clinician in point of care ultrasound should be trained in the fundaments, image acquisition, image interpretation, and clinical integration.

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  1. Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Benji K. Mathews M.D. & Oana Dickinson M.D.

  2. Department of Hospital Medicine, HealthPartners, St. Paul, MN, USA

    Benji K. Mathews M.D. & Oana Dickinson M.D.

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA

    Bret P. Nelson

  2. Scripps Translational Science Institute, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA

    Eric Topol

  3. Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

    Anjali Bhagra

  4. Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Sharon L. Mulvagh

  5. Department of Cardiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA

    Jagat Narula

11.1 Electronic Supplementary Material

Transverse view of the right internal jugular vein (IJV ) and carotid artery (CA). Video courtesy of Benji Mathews, MD (MP4 2944 kb)

Longitudinal view of internal jugular vein thrombosis. Video courtesy of Mangala Narasingham, DO (WMV 995 kb)

Transverse view of lymph node. Video courtesy of Benji Mathews, MD (MP4 2940 kb)

Transverse view of lymph node with color Doppler. Inflammatory nodes may be quite large but retain their fatty hilum and associated axial vascularity on Doppler imaging [9]. Increased vascularity may also be seen when color flow Doppler is used. With pathologic lymph nodes, a regional, more comprehensive ultrasound or other advanced imaging is usually required. Moreover, with enlarged lymph nodes, a core-needle biopsy may also be recommended. Video courtesy of Benji Mathews, MD (MP4 2937 kb)

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Mathews, B.K., Dickinson, O. (2018). Neck. In: Nelson, B., Topol, E., Bhagra, A., Mulvagh, S., Narula, J. (eds) Atlas of Handheld Ultrasound. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73855-0_11

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