INFRATEMPORAL FOSSA
- Infratemporal fossa
- Irregular space below zygomatic arch
- Boundaries
- Anterior
- Posterior surface of body of maxilla
- Roof
- Infratemporal surface of greater wing of sphenoid
- Medial
- Lateral pterygoid plate and pyramidal process of palatine bone
- Lateral
- Ramus of mandible
- Contents
- Lateral pterygoid muscle
- Medial pterygoid muscle
- Mandibular nerve with its branches
- Maxillary nerve with its branches
- Chorda tympani nerve
- 1st and 2nd parts of maxillary artery with their branches
- Posterior superior alveolar artery , branch of 3rd part of maxillary artery
- Accompanying veins
- Relations of lateral pterygoid
- Superficial
- Masseter
- Ramus of mandible
- Tendon of temporalis
- Maxillary artery
- Deep
- Mandibular nerve
- Middle meningeal artery
- Sphenomandibular ligament
- Deep head of medial pterygoid
- Structures emerging from upper border
- Deep temporal nerve
- Masseteric nerve
- Structures emerging from lower border
- Lingual nerve
- Inferior alveolar nerve
- Middle meningeal artery and accesory meningeal artery
- Structures passing through gap between two heads
- Maxillary artery enters gap
- Buccal branch of mandibular nerve
- Relations of medial pterygoid
- Superficial
- Upper part separated from lateral pterygoid by
- Lateral pterygoid plate
- Lingual nerve
- Inferior alveolar nerve
- Deep relations
- Tensor veli palatini
- Superior constrictor of pharynx
- Styloglossus
- Stylopharyngeus
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