BUCCOPHARYNGEAL FASCIA

This fascia covers all the constrictor muscles

externally and extends on to the superficial aspect
of the buccinator muscle

This fascia is attached to pharyngeal tubercle

Posterior to the buccopharyngeal fascia lies the

retropharyngeal space
Alar fascia is ancillary layer of deep cervical fascia
which divides wo retropharyngeal space into two
parts

The posterior space between alar fascia and

prevertebral fascia is the “dangerous space in neck”
 CLINICAL ASPECTS
Dangerous space of the neck:
posterior to the retropharyngeal space
space between the alar layer and prevertebral layer
of deep fascia
so named because it contains loose areolar tissue
and offers little resistance to spread of infection
runs from base of skull to diaphragm
 PHARYNGOBASILAR FASCIA
This fascia is especially thickened between the upper
border of superior pharyngeal constrictor muscle and
the base of the skull

it lies deep to the pharyngeal muscles

 ATTACHMENTS
SUPERIORLY: basilar part of occipital bone and
petrous temporal bone
INFERIORLY: superior pharyngeal constrictor muscle
ANTERIORLY: posterior border of medial pterygoid
plate
POSTERIORLY: midline pharyngeal raphae