"Pterygopalatine Fossa" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A small space in the skull between the MAXILLA and the SPHENOID BONE, medial to the pterygomaxillary fissure, and connecting to the NASAL CAVITY via the sphenopalatine foramen.
| Descriptor ID |
D056739
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A02.835.232.781.670
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| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pterygopalatine Fossa" by people in Profiles.
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Anatomy of the pterygopalatine fossa: an innovative metrical assessment based on 3D segmentation on head CT-scan. Surg Radiol Anat. 2019 May; 41(5):523-528.
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Endoscopic transnasal approaches to pterygopalatine fossa tumors. Head Neck. 2016 04; 38 Suppl 1:E214-20.