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The Maxillary Artery Loops Dangerously Approaching the Mandible’s Lingula and Inferior Orbital Fissure
| العنوان: | The Maxillary Artery Loops Dangerously Approaching the Mandible’s Lingula and Inferior Orbital Fissure |
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| المؤلفون: | Rusu, Mugurel Constantin, Dumitru, Cătălin Constantin, Vrapciu, Alexandra Diana |
| المصدر: | Journal of Craniofacial Surgery ; volume 35, issue 2, page e193-e195 ; ISSN 1049-2275 |
| بيانات النشر: | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| الوصف: | The maxillary artery (MA) leaves from the external carotid artery and further courses through the infratemporal fossa to reach the pterygopalatine fossa. It typically has an ascending course either on the lateral or on the medial side of the inferior bundle of the lateral pterygoid muscle. While studying retrospectively, the computed tomography angiogram of an adult male case with peculiar tortuosities of the MA was documented. The left MA described a large inferior sagittal loop applied on the mandible’s ramus’s inner cortical in the pterygomandibular space’s upper part. That loop reached 1.66 cm inferior to the mandible’s notch and 0.5 cm superior to the mandibular foramen and was applied on the mandible’s lingula (spine of Spix). That MA continued to the pterygomaxillary suture, and a second superior coronal loop was found applied on the posterior wall of the maxillary sinus, reaching the inferior orbital fissure. It is therefore mandatory to take good care in the decortication of the mandibular ramus or during osteotomies of the ramus. When an inferior loop of the MA approaches the spine of Spix, bleeding when an inferior alveolar nerve block is performed seems hardly avoidable. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1097/scs.0000000000009954 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/SCS.0000000000009954 |
| الاتاحة: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/scs.0000000000009954 https://journals.lww.com/10.1097/SCS.0000000000009954 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.F86D7D3 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1097/scs.0000000000009954 |
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