Peripharyngeal space

Peripharyngeal space
Latin	spatium peripharyngeum

The peripharyngeal space is a space in the neck.^[1]

It can be split into the retropharyngeal space and the parapharyngeal space.^[2]

References

1. ^ Tegler, Terry C.; Lang, Johannes (1995). Clinical anatomy of the masticatory apparatus peripharyngeal spaces. Stuttgart: G. Thieme Verlag. pp. 145. ISBN 0-86577-551-6. 
2. ^ Wolfgang Kuehnel; Helga Fritsch (2007). Color Atlas of Human Anatomy, Volume 2: Internal Organs (v. 2). New York: Thieme Medical Publishers. pp. 168. ISBN 3-13-533405-8. 

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