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Variations in the anatomy of the auriculotemporal nerve.
Clinical anatomy (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Jan 2005
Gülekon Nadir, Anil Afitap, Poyraz Aylar, Peker Tuncay, Turgut Hasan Basri, Karaköse Mustafa
Abstract excerpt
The common representation of the auriculotemporal nerve is either that of a single posterior branch of the mandibular nerve or of two roots that envelope the middle meningeal artery. Our observation in the anatomy of the auriculotemporal nerve on 32 dissections (16 cadaveric heads) of the infratemporal fossa included: one specimen with four roots (3.1%), three specimens with three roots (9.4%), 12 specimens with...
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