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Cranial cavity has...in it |
Brain, meninges, some cranial nerve portions and blood vessels |
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Posterior border of cranial cavity |
Sphenoid ridge Lesser wing of sphenoid in front |
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Superior border |
Petrous ridge Petrous temporal behind |
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Three fossa |
Ant(highest level), middle, post |
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Roof of cranial cavity |
Calvaria |
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Anterior cranial fossa boundaries |
Ant: frontal bone Midline: crest for falx cerebri Post: lesser wing of sphenoid |
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Attachment for tentorium cerebelli |
Anterior clinoid process |
Medial end of lesser wing of sphenoid |
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Attachment for falx cerebri |
Crista galli |
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Floor of calvaria |
Orbital plate, cribriform plate, Crista galli |
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What passes thru foramen cecum |
Emissary vein to sup sagittal sinus |
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Narrow slit in crib. Plate |
For anterior ethmoidal veins |
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Middle cranial fossa resembles a |
Butterfly (small median, expanded lateral parts) |
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Median part of m.cranial fossa is made of |
Sphenoid |
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W/c part of sphenoid contributes not to mcf |
Pterygoid process |
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Lateral surface of sphenoid |
Greater wings and pterygoid process |
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Anterior surface of sphenoid |
Roof of nasal cavity |
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Inferior surface of sphenoid |
Roof of pharynx |
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Posterior surface of sphenoid |
Fused with occipital |
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Superior surface of sphenoid |
Hypophysis cerebri |
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Posterior end of chiasmatic groove |
Tuberculum sella |
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Sella turcica |
Upper surface of body (behind chiasmatic groove) |
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Sphenoid ridge |
Sharp posterior border of lesser wing of sphenoid |
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Hypophyseal fossa at |
Middle of sella turcica |
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Carotid groove begins in..., Lateral to...., Contain.... |
Foramen lacerum Hypophyseal fossa Internal carotid art |
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Lateral part of middle cranial fossa contain |
Temporal lobes |
Which lobe |
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Lateral part of middle cranial fossa made of |
Greater wings of sphenoid plus squamous and petrous temporal bone |
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Sphenoparietal and superior petrousal sinuses related to |
Venous sinus |
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Slit bn greater and lesser wing of sphenoid |
Sup orbital fissure |
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Sup orbital fissure transmits |
III IV VI, sup ophthalmic vein ophthalmic nerve(T1) |
5 structures |
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Foramen rotumdum found below, it transmits |
Sup orb fiss Maxillary nerve to pterygopalatine fossa |
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Foramen ovale, transmits |
Behind rotundum Mandib nerve, accessory meningeal art and lesser petrosal nerve. (Medial to it may be sphenoid emissary foramen) |
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Pterion fracture may cause |
Extradural hematoma |
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Damage to ant cranial fossa |
Epistaxis and CSF rhinorrhea |
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Orbital plate fructure |
Hemorrhage beneath conjuctiva, exophthalmos |
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Middle cranial fossa fructure |
Blood and CSF leak to external auditory meatus III IV VI VII VIII CN injury |
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Posterior cranial fossa fructure |
Blood to nape and post vertebral muscles |
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Jugular foramen fructure |
9th 10th 11th CN damage |
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