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cricoarytenoid muscles

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cricoarytenoid muscles,
one of the muscles that opens and closes the rima glottidis, innervated by the laryngeal branches of the vagus nerves.


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6,9,12,13) A typical finding is symmetric high uptake at the muscle origin and insertion of the arytenoid cartilage, posterior cricoarytenoid muscles, and some less intense uptake along the course of thyroarytenoid and vocalis muscle (11) (Figure 1).
[7] This is in contrast to other evidence that suggests that fast-twitch fibers in the thyroarytenoid and lateral cricoarytenoid muscles are reinnervated more rapidly and to a greater degree than slow-twitch fibers.
 
 
 
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