General H&N Flashcards
1
Q
Internal maxillary artery branches
A
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First Part
- Deep auricular artery
- Anterior tympanic artery
- Middle meningeal artery
- Inferior alveolar
- Accessory meningeal artery
Second Part
- Masseteric artery
- Pterygoid branches
- Deep temporal arteries (anterior and posterior)
- Buccal artery
Third Part
- Sphenopalatine
- Descending palatine
- Infraorbital
- Posterior superior alveolar artery
- Middle superior alveolar artery
- Pharyngeal artery
- Anterior superior alveolar arteries
- Artery of pterygoid canal
2
Q
Lateral and medial pterygoid function
A
Both pull mandible medially.
Lateral - pulls jaw inferiorly
Medial - closes jaw
3
Q
V3 innervated muscles
A
Masseter
Temporalis
Medial Pterygoid
Lateral pterygoid
Mylohyoid
Anterior belly of the digastric
Tensor tympani
Tensor veli palatini
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4
Q
Stylomandibular tunnel boundaries and what passes through (shape of tumor passing through this)?
A
- superiorly - skull base
- anterior - posterior portion of mandibular ramus
- posterior - stylomandibular ligament
- parotid passes through, separation of deep and superficial lobes
- tumors of the deep parotid pass through the tunnel, have a dumbell shaped appearance
5
Q
What limits the jaw’s inferior ROM?
A
sphenomandibular and stylomandibular ligaments
