Infratemporal Fossa 3D

  • Description

    • * Location: Irregular space inferior to temporal fossa, deep to mandible and behind maxilla.
    • * Boundaries: Anterior - maxilla and maxillomandibular fossa; posterior - mastoid process, styloid process, tympanic plate of temporal bone; lateral - ramus of mandible; medial - sphenoid bone and pterygoid processes.
    • * Floor: None, open inferiorly to the neck region.
    • * Contents: Muscles of mastication (lateral pterygoid, medial pterygoid, temporalis), maxillary artery, mandibular nerve (through foramen ovale), facial nerve (through stylomastoid foramen), pterygoid plexus.

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  • Description

    • * Location: Irregular space inferior to temporal fossa, deep to mandible and behind maxilla.
    • * Boundaries: Anterior - maxilla and maxillomandibular fossa; posterior - mastoid process, styloid process, tympanic plate of temporal bone; lateral - ramus of mandible; medial - sphenoid bone and pterygoid processes.
    • * Floor: None, open inferiorly to the neck region.
    • * Contents: Muscles of mastication (lateral pterygoid, medial pterygoid, temporalis), maxillary artery, mandibular nerve (through foramen ovale), facial nerve (through stylomastoid foramen), pterygoid plexus.

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