Fascia Pirogov

Pirogov's fascia is a fascial formation at the base of the neck, tightly covering the sternocleidomastoid and scapular muscles, hidden in the thickness of these muscles and delimiting them from the subcutaneous fatty tissue.

The history of the name Pirogov's fascia consists of two components. Named after the founder of Russian military field surgery, Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov, who first recorded its presence during autopsies of corpses and gave a detailed description of it as an integral part of a complex formation, which is divided into a superficial one, covering the submandibular region, and a deep one in the form of a gap without skin and subcutaneous tissue. According to the simplest method of determination, by the nature of the attachment - to the sternocleidomastoid muscle and the coracoid process