Inferior Attachments and Relations
Below, the fascia is attached to the acromion, the clavicle, and the manubrium sterni.
Some little distance above the last it splits into two layers, superficial and deep.
The former is attached to the anterior border of the manubrium, the latter to its posterior border and to the interclavicular ligament.
Between these two layers is a slit-like interval, the suprasternal space (space of Burns); it contains a small quantity of areolar tissue, the lower portions of the anterior jugular veins and their transverse connecting branch, the sternal heads of the Sternocleidomastoidei, and sometimes a lymph gland.
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