10 Overview of the Head and Neck as a Region of Anatomy

Question 1

What is in the Cerebellopontine angle?

Answer 1

facial nerve
vestibulocohlear nerve
flocculus of the cerebellum
Lateral recess of the 4th ventricle

Question 2

What is a bad thing about the Redlich Obersteiner zone?

Answer 2

it is a site of natural compression of the nerve

Question 3

What do the vertebral arteries enter the skull through?

Answer 3

carotid canal

Question 4

Where is the pterygopalatine fossa?

Answer 4

between the viscero and neurocranium

Question 5

how does the chondrocranium ossify?

Answer 5

endochondral ossification

Question 6

How does the membranous neurocranium ossify?

Answer 6

intramembranously

Question 7

What is the embryological origin of bones anterior to the sellar turcica?

Answer 7

neural crest cells

Question 8

What is the embryological origin of bones posterior to the sellar turcica?

Answer 8

peraxial mesoderm

Question 9

In what directions can a le fort fracture occur?

Answer 9

horizontal
pyramidal
transverse