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The following synopsis of the ME anatomy reviews the basic anatomical knowledge necessary to better understand our future approach of the RP, focusing on the tympanic membrane, the different middle ear compartments and their ventilation pathways, the mastoid air cell system, and the Eustachian tube. This chapter relies on the detailed description of the middle ear cleft anatomy presented in “The Comprehensive and Clinical Anatomy of the Middle Ear” (Springer).
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Mansour, S., Magnan, J., Haidar, H., Nicolas, K. (2015). Related Anatomy of the Middle Ear Cleft and Eustachian Tube. In: Tympanic Membrane Retraction Pocket. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13996-8_2
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