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Cholesteatoma is a destructive and expanding growth consisting of keratinizing squamous ... the thin bone structure that isolates the top of ... the petrous apex, and ...
The petrous part of the temporal bone is pyramid-shaped and is wedged in at the base of the skull between the sphenoid and occipital bones.Directed medially, forward, and a little upward, it presents a base, an apex, three surfaces, and three angles, and houses in its interior the components of the inner ear.
Gradenigo's syndrome, also called Gradenigo-Lannois syndrome, [1] [2] is a complication of otitis media and mastoiditis involving the apex of the petrous temporal bone. It was first described by Giuseppe Gradenigo in 1904. [3]
The petrous and mastoid parts of the temporal bone, which derive from the periotic bone, formed from the fusion of a number of bones surrounding the ear of reptiles. The delicate structure of the middle ear , unique to mammals, is generally not protected in marsupials , but in placentals , it is usually enclosed within a bony sheath called the ...
Koerner's septum is an anatomic boundary in the temporal bone formed by the petrosquamous suture between the petrous and squamosal portions of the mastoid air cells, at the anatomic level of the mastoid antrum. [1] Along with the middle ear ossicles, it is usually eroded in middle ear cholesteatomas. [2]
The mastoid antrum (tympanic antrum, antrum mastoideum, Valsalva's antrum) is an air space in the petrous portion of the temporal bone, communicating posteriorly with the mastoid cells and anteriorly with the epitympanic recess of the middle ear via the aditus to mastoid antrum (entrance to the mastoid antrum). These air spaces function as ...
Petrous portion (From Latin petrous 'rocky') may refer to: Petrous portion of the temporal bone; Petrous portion of the internal carotid artery
In the middle cranial fossa, the nerve is situated between the two layers of the dura mater [1]: 450, 498 and passes obliquely anterior-ward [1]: 450 along a groove upon the floor of the fossa [1]: 509 - the groove for the greater petrosal nerve - that is situated upon the anterosuperior aspect of the petrous part of the temporal bone [3]: 842 ...