Internal acoustic opening: Different osseous landmarks and their clinical implications

AKIN SAYGIN, Duygu | TÜRKOĞLU, Fatma Nur | AYDIN KABAKÇI, Anıl Didem | ALPA, Şerife

ABSTRACT: Internal acoustic opening is a space that opens to facies posterior of the petrous piece of temporal bone that goes inside facial nerve, vestibulocochlear nerve, intermedial nevre and labyrinthine artery. The purpose of this study is the assessment of internal acoustic opening from a morphometric perspective, determination of the shape of the hole and determination of the distance to some important anatomic formations. This study is conducted on 166 temporal bones with unknown sex formation which are part of the skull collection in NEU and KTO Karatay University, Anatomy Department. ...Daha fazlası