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The pterygoideus proprius muscle revisited
Author(s) -
Penhall Brian,
Townsend Grant,
Tomo Soichiro,
Nakajima Koh
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
clinical anatomy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.667
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1098-2353
pISSN - 0897-3806
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1098-2353(1998)11:5<332::aid-ca7>3.0.co;2-r
Subject(s) - infratemporal fossa , medicine , anatomy , sphenoid bone , crest , anomaly (physics) , skull , physics , quantum mechanics , condensed matter physics
The pterygoideus proprius muscle is an anomaly in the infratemporal fossa that has immovable attachments to the infratemporal crest and the lateral pterygoid plate of the sphenoid bone. We report the identification of three cases of this anomaly, suggest its embryological origin, and speculate about its function. Clin. Anat. 11:332–337, 1998. © 1998 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.