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Understanding the temporal bone and its internal pathways through an animated diagrammatic approach (721.3)
Author(s) -
Chou Benjamin,
Nielsen Mark,
Morton David
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.28.1_supplement.721.3
Subject(s) - temporal bone , diagrammatic reasoning , presentation (obstetrics) , anatomy , computer science , cranial bone , medicine , skull , radiology , programming language
Understanding the topography of the cranial nerves within the temporal bone is a challenge for both medical students and residents. Unlike most other areas of anatomy, this small, confined boney space is not easy to dissect. This makes it difficult to study and to visualize its internal anatomy. Students are then left to wordy textual descriptions and accompanying illustrations, which can be very excellent but also very confusing for the beginning learners. To address this problem, we created a temporal bone tutorial that demonstrates all the cranial nerve pathways and temporal bone structures on a simplified three‐dimensional illustration. The entire presentation is focused on the three‐dimensional spatial orientations of the tympanic cavity within the temporal bone and the topography of the cranial nerve pathways through the temporal bone. Student feedback has been very positive and most students respond that this helps them better understand this difficult region of anatomy.