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The greater wings of the sphenoid are two strong processes of bone, which arise from the sides of the body, and are curved upward, laterally, and backward; the posterior part of each projects as a triangular process that fits into the angle between the squamous and the petrous part of the temporal bone and presents at its apex a downward-directed process, the spine of sphenoid bone.
The middle cranial fossa is formed by the sphenoid bones, and the temporal bones.It lodges the temporal lobes, and the pituitary gland. [1] [2] It is deeper than the anterior cranial fossa, is narrow medially and widens laterally to the sides of the skull.
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The posterior vertical buttress is usually spared, and is more commonly involved in Lefort fractures. Specifically, one of two positions at the lateral orbital wall can be involved, either above at its superior junction with the zygomaticofrontal suture or below at its inferior junction with the zygomaticosphenoid suture at the sphenoid greater ...
A sphenoparietal sinus is situated under each lesser wing of the sphenoid bone near the posterior edge of this bone, [2] between the anterior cranial fossa and middle cranial fossa.
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